Should I have
my house with doors unlocked,
banks without security guards
and supermarkets you can walk in
without cameras that sleeplessly
watch over us;
streets free of patrol police cars
and armored vehicles that carry
either money or arrested men?
Could I talk
to everyone I meet, even a young child
or elders, a girl or a woman,
nobody thinking it would be for
malice or wickedness?
Should I have
this entire world free of assets and
liabilities, debts and credits, profit
and loss; having its accounts made
by other measures, just looking for
human happiness,
a common plain smile and
a permanent beauty’s ravishment?
Published in The Stare’s Nest, August 25, 2015.
