Can You Imagine?

Can you imagine a hypothetical poet?

Capable of being male and female

(Depending on topic or subject)?

Capable of changing shape

From the human form to an animal?

Morphing from one to another

Without prejudice, bias, or preference

Their focus is to chase the moment

Capture it, examine it; bring it to words

Imagine the descriptive power of that poet

Can you imagine it? It’s not hard

It is the pinnacle every poet tries to reach

And lose themselves in, a swirling maze

Of thoughts and feelings clamouring for attention

Demanding priority. It surely is a process

Of increasing immersion, going deep

Into a mysterious state of being

Pause, a moment; them a moment more

Is this process-wise, desirable or safe?

Let us examine this hypothetical self

In the human form. A priori, he/she is flesh

Yes? Not a river, or a stream of consciousness

(No, he/she, however, is open to and responsive to

Changes in the environment, emotional states

And changes in the particular situation)

Where’s their focus? You might demand

Their centre? Their sense of being?

Lost in an eternal flow of stimulus and response

Ever changing, form and deforming

Under creation and re-creation

Yes? No? Maybe? A question fully understood

Is already half-answered!

Can You Imagine?

Can you imagine a hypothetical poet?

Capable of being male and female

(Depending on topic or subject)?

Capable of changing shape

From the human form to an animal?

Morphing from one to another

Without prejudice, bias or preference

Their focus is to chase the moment.