Fantastical Reality Ride

 

Imagination can take us upon all kinds of magic rides

But reality keeps us rooted when the fantasy subsides

No need for maybemaybenot to not yield maybemaybeso

We dream undream to dream again where hearts together grow

 

There will always be the flights of thought into unreal surreal space

Some meant just to daydream and some just to change the pace

Mind, heart, and soul create a hole for us to sometimes peek into

I have peered there many times and just can’t keep from finding you

 

There’s a fallacy in futures that project with a fairy tale ideal

When the present is a missing world in a void too sadly real

But I can speak with certainty of one place I truly deeply know

Where fantasy roots spread renewed hope, build strength, and won’t let go

 

It’s the universe that beckons two old souls to chance to step inside

To find their place together and to finally walk their tandemed stride

It’s that dream that seemed so distant and made the journey to it hard

Until the million miles of wishes comes to rest in their back yard

 

                                                

                                                                          s. paul  (March 2020)