Poem: There Are Those

"There are those...
whose knotted cedar
the culture chisel
could not chip into shape...
There are those...
whose eagle winged day dreams
could not be clipped by
the slow sharp scissors
of insurance plans and mortgages...
There are those...
who the straight jacket
of a robot schooling
could not keep from
houdini-ing their way
to their degree in creativity...
It is these ones and their kin
who have been given
the outcast's job of taking
the human race forward...
to a time when the few
who are different...
will not be punished
by the many who are the same...
and every man and woman
will know the unfettered freedom
of the imagination
to enliven the world
we sometimes sleep walk in..."
.................................Quester.