Life

The power of life rages within us,
      We seek to understand it.....to channel it,
      But it seems to channel us instead,
      We have our presumptions....
      that we are in control,
      that we know what we want,
      that we know who we are,
      But each day we surprise ourselves,
      We watch our lives...acted out upon a fantasy stage,
      And we say....
      did I do that,
      did I say that,
      do I really feel that way,
      We say I am what I am....
      I won't change,
      I like me as me,
      and then we change...to suit someone else
      to gain favor,
      a smile,
      a hug,
      a kiss,
      Changes that take months in non-fantasy life,
      Occur in days in fantasy,
      We evolve faster here.

We have our "real" lives and our fantasy lives,
      And one invades the other,
      And sometimes it is hard to tell which is which.....no??

But the joy that travels down the inner paths of our minds,
      From one stranger in a distant city to another,
      Eclipses all the intellectual attempts at understanding fantasy...
      as unimportant.
      I take joy where ever it comes,
      And I find much more joy from fantasy than pain,
      And I find I can take much more risks here...
      and grow.

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