To Suggest

He always said that people

spent too much time worrying

over brokered needs. 

He always thought that

there were those rare events

and opportunities

that people missed

because they were constantly

prodded

into passing through

those perpetual,

and pervasive

doors of distraction.  

He held that there were

“simpler times”

and that they were still

to be found

in consciously choosing

a cooler, more modest shade.

He was puzzled to find

That even the spiritualists

were also diligently

fashioning their

place in the sun,

chasing that elusive

hocus pocus mirage.

For him to suggest

that the real dream 

had,

all the while,

been waiting for them

outside their door,

would have been dismissed 

as naïve and idyllic.

 – Burt Baldwin, Ignacio