Some words hold magic <br />Phrases to other dimensions- <br />Where you are going now, <br />There is no need of keys. <br /> <br />Many pauses can fill an entire silence; <br />Too long empty makes a fullness of nothing. <br /> <br />Some passages go quiet <br />Down eternities of stairs, <br />Darkness proceeding darkness, <br />To the deafest of ears. <br /> <br />The trapdoor is opening, now closing again, <br />A trick of the trade: look up while you can. <br /> <br />The hat could hold rabbits, handkerchiefs, time; <br />Here's a beautiful maiden, being sawed in two. <br />The eyes can plays tricks; so forget the mind- <br />Heaven and hell unseen by the blind. <br /> <br />While the audience searches for what is known, <br />The stars wander where time has blown. <br /> <br />We are lost, we are found; <br />Not one can do the sums. <br />In a lucid dream, <br />It will all come undone. <br /> <br />There is nothing to find; there is nothing to see, <br />The Magician steps back, with a flourish of cape: <br /> <br />Nothing new is under the moon, <br />Just graves and shadows and resting clouds; <br />So give us one day, untied from the rest- <br /> <br />Abracadabra- only death is allowed.<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abracadabra-4/
