what you have experienced is real
you do not have to explain it to anyone
in ten years it will only be a memory
in twenty years it will seem like an illusion
you do not have to know why
but you were created to feel emotion
and what happens to you is reality
that is all the proof you need
for there is no illusion
pain is not an illusion
life is not an illusion
only a perception, except
that which you know to be true
and it is enough
to know what you know
and you do know
and you do live on
with the storm that rages inside your heart
as the past is water smashing over the side into the hold
though you can still smile at a lover
like a calm sea making love to the setting sun
while the unseen life below feeds upon itself
and waves crash down upon faraway mariners
as they try to escape the shores they once loved
never asking for permission to die
only a reason worthy of the illusion they will shatter
in those who loved them