“Come with me, and you will be, in a land full of imagination…”

If You Want to See Paradise (Don’t Ask me for a Picture)

Poem by incarcerated member Vylet

Yeah, I know you want something a little more upbeat.

And all my poems are sad.

I’d write about being happy more often,

If I were happy more often. eee, Gad!

But for you, let me try this.

It’s no big deal.

For you, I will write

What I do not feel.

With imagination it’s easy.

Word play I create.

A mind set to set minds.

In a World. Realist. State.

Happy happy joy joy.

Ahhh, forget this.

What do you want from me?

My heart is dark as midnight

And only death holds the key.

I hate people. I hate life.

I wish death, I stir strife.

I talk proper and fool people.

Sophisticated learned evil.

I wasn’t always full of resentment.

Bitterness and sorrow

Pain and depression.

But that story will not be told,

This morning or after lunch.

Use your imagination

And make one the hell up.

Ah yes,  I imagine and daydream it’s true

That one day I won’t have to imagine

What it’s like to be happy

And happily write a poem for you

1-25-2020

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