What Is Real
What is Real? I ask myself
Is it only that which you can taste, touch or feel?
Or is it not the obvious but only the quiet poundings of one's heart
Those of sensibility, those which all of wondering humanity must endure.
Could it be in the quiet whisperings
Which hang upon a lover's breath?
Could it be in the silent feelings
That which cause my true heart unrest?
Could it be in the long lost memories
Of the beloved that have come before?
Could be in death's eternal silence
Never to speak again evermore?
Could it be the muriad of ideas
That go racing through my mind
Like ships that have crossed the oceans
Fearless travelers seeking to find
Seeking to find that which has not been sought
Seeking to think that which has never been thought
Seeking to create unique individuality from within
Infiinitely seeking...through hardships and loss.
Could it be in the miraculous act
That makes a plant grow from a seed?
Could it be found in the remarkable story
Of how mankind came to be?
Could be in what makes the sun shine
And creates the wind and rain and snow?
Could it be where rainbow's treasure really resides
Will one ever know?
Is it hidden in the quiet snowkflakes
Which flutter untethered through the skies
Could it be contained in their complex frameworks
In which it could microscopically reside.
Magical structures of which they are
Their infinite uniqueness amazingly clear.
From water to air
from air to snow
from snow to water once again
Is this one of the infinite cycles
Of which what is real evidently appears?
Could there be real?
Can it be found?
What is real?
Is it in sound?
Could there be real?
Can it be sown?
What is real?
Is it a fact, is it known?
What is real?
Is there such a thing as real?
Is there a given contract?
Is it a solid deal?
Is there really, really real?
Will real ever cease to be?
Is there really truth in real?
Is there really, real in me?
(December 3rd, 2010 Wausau, Wisconsin)
(c) Copyright 2010 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved,
Copyright © Christine A Kysely | Year Posted 2010
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