the real life

don't let the "real" life
bring you down
for when you turn around
you'll find there's
other views
the child within you dies
when from your heart
the magic flies
for there it used to burn
like glowing steel
but no! "grow up
none of that is real"
(and so they fool us into
thinking we're not allowed
to feel)
how long since
you felt the
heart-expanding wonder?
lightning and the storm
a dragon on the thunder?
the real is a perspective
respective of times and
peoples, places, wrapped up
in imaginary graces
as true as you
and me
grasped first in what the
aching heart sees