In Defence of Imagination

Shining eyes glitter green
Imagine new worlds where things are so clear
Where you see music
Where you touch lightening
Where you taste the stars
Where you hear butterfly wings
And raindrops fall from your fingertips

Laughing mouth blush red
Speak of new realms of beauty, shock, and awe
Where you jump from cloud to cloud
Where you walk on massive cold waves
Where you run without getting weak
Where you kick diamonds across the seas
And light refracts off your fingernails

But what if there’s nothing
Nothing more than what we see
Time ceases as we ourselves
We ourselves become nothing
Well, I won’t have it

There’s more to this universe
All its beauty and clumsiness
Time continues and escapes
Escapes our pitiful knowledge
You see I believe

There are unicorns and monsters
Monsters under the bed and in the closet
There are elves and fairies
Fairies that fly at night and wish on stars
I think that childish notions

Keeps this crazy world on track
Just as the wisest person said
“Become like a child and
You will enter heaven”
And what an imagination He had!