Bubbles

Bubbles

ethereal, beautiful
seemingly perfect
suggest a grand design
offer visions of the divine, 
and unrealistic dreams of the improbable
don't live in them
They were never your "safe space"
for they are impervious to will, intent or desire
temporary purgatorial traps
that burst 
against the slightest hint of reality.

Some may see a challenge to overcome
a scientific mind confident in their ability to discover

a solution to the dream's intangibility;

Others may accept their transient nature, 

grateful for visions of possibilities,
or the respite of a dream savored however temporary;

While most will fold, crushed under the weight of dreams deferred 
their punishment, their karma for daring to believe...

to be haunted by the memory of contentment 

seemingly offered on colorful platters

unceremoniously and instantaneously removed..
by design.