If a man dies never having described
the magical experience he once had
does it mean the magic never happened
Magic is not the same as conjuring
which is a trick, usually sleight of hand
though a trick of the light may be magical…
“There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s where the light gets in”
sang Leonard Cohen with a voice so low it may count as magic
Counting off the things on your bucket list
you may miss the magic
you never thought to list
Thinking about magic you have experienced
you may be in danger of dissecting
it to death and why would you not just accept
Accepting the existence of magic
is a personal prerogative
one person’s magic is another’s commonplace
Magic can happen any place
any time
to anyone
I believe in magic
but not magicians
or ghosts
I defend the rights of others
to believe in ghosts, and
to share what magic means to them
Magic, like love – just is
it cannot be reasoned or conjured up
though you may set the scene for it to manifest
The manifestation of magic
cannot be forced
but only prepared for in receptivity
The reception of magic is easy for children
but what they achieve easily
we struggle to hold onto with age
A life may well be weighed
by the amount of magic
we have observed to be…
Perhaps the real question to be asked
is not whether you believe in magic
but whether magic believes in you…
© Andrew Wilson, 2024
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Over at dVerse Poets Pub, msjadeli in OpenLinkNight, invites us to submit a poem and since we are, in Lisa’s words “just a week away from the spookiness of All Hallow’s Eve”, I have chosen one that references magic and ghosts…
I wrote this in my writing group in the shadow of “Belief in Magic” by Dean Young.