Imagine
It’s the complexity of it all That gives me a headache. Reimagining John Lennon’s Song with my Grade Six Students, we stumbled into The binary of black And white as John And Yoko walk down a Dark path to arrive At a white house and Yoko opens shutters to Illuminate an empty Room in a place they Call “not here”. The peaceful simplicity of a Black and white world Greyed as we walked Our own path: Black White, Wrong Right, Evil Goodness, Dirty Clean, Ambiguity Clarity, Weak Strong, Chaos Logic, South North, African European, Female Male, Innocence, Experience, And arrived at a room Where my illumination Opened eyes And minds onto A world which is increasingly Hard to see.