Who Gave Permission?

v1.1 January 08, 2023

Who gave permission

For a beagle to have a typewriter

For an orphan wizard

For eggs to be green?

Who approved of the idea

Tiger and a trolly

Pigeon and bus

Bear in a Studebaker?

Who said it was okay

To yell 1.21 Gigawatts

To sing Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

To give all the powers of a squirrel to a girl?

Who said don’t quit

When the transmogrifier was just a cardboard box

When the footfalls of the Stay Puft resounded

When the hyperdrive sputtered out?

So why am I waiting

For the angel Gabriel, 

Or some voice from my past

To say, permission granted?

The dreams still come

v1.1 January 01, 2023

Those days, our ancestors’ days,

dreams would come to the huntsman

The antelope 

Offering itself before the kill

“It’s okay, my time has come

And anyway you must fully live”

These days, our worrisome days

the dreams still come

The anxiety

But we don’t know it’s offering itself

“Here I am, put me to rest

And it’s okay to fully live”