Virtual reality Alternate reality Bored with the natural world The cure for becoming jaded Yet like all good things It can replace what's real The real and the ideal Swearing allegiance to whatever makes us feel Immersed, submerged Two worlds merge and one mirage remains A twisted masterpiece With no clear author Two to one, two scales provide balance Only one invokes infatuation Initial fascination Future rectification, the ode of a modern-day addict Elevated past the mortal plane Until the runway is in sight No place to run We all come down to the territory Reminiscing over old glory A quarry so gory, an even shorter story Legacy, six letters boxed into a future Freedom in relation to life's culmination Only in virtual reality, broken vacation Free of altercation, alienation Invoking happiness while becoming more alien, desecration