We All Want Something Different - Kristy Hellum

[Larry Robinson]

We All Want Something Different

In the space between
civilization and chaos
what form is your fear
going to take?

Pay attention my friend 
for the unruly imagination
will undoubtedly fill the gap

Who will carry the guns?
     The army or the people?
Those are NOT MY questions
     Could they be yours?

I cannot afford
     to listen to the news

I have dreamt, as others have
a multitude of profound
and disturbing 
apocalyptic dreams

And they have been given
their proper due

I can tell you this;
my dreams have more validity
than the NY Times does

Do not read another news article
(or listen to another debate)
without remembering your dreams
It may not be safe

I repeat
I can no longer afford
     to listen to the news
unless I take care to balance it

By reading Langston Hughes
or imagining that I am Mary Oliver
taking daily prescriptions of nature
and wonderment 
or singing gospel music
every once in a while
or perhaps daily amen

When you have developed
enough lucidity to determine
the outcome of your dreams
please come running
and let me know

Only then you can go about
your business of trying
to save the rest of us.

	- Kristy Hellum
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