A Long Enough Time Ago


    You tell me what's real
    by counting the hours,
    and I just find that odd --
    all these places
    you're looking for god.



    You watch from the shadows,
    you feel the magic,
    you hear the music,
    but you don't see what you see.
    You check the clock or a book
    or some authority.



    Art creates reality.
    I cried about nothing.
    I cried about everything.
    I laughed all the way through
    to the end.
    All of it was real and
    needs no defense.
    You were the mime,
    and hence
    the pretense.



    And so in the end,
    it's you with the numbers,
    and you only count to one
    and count it forever
    and say sometimes it's fun.


    ~XineAnn