Real

You’ve realized you’re real,
        -but only after you’ve played the many roles
                -you know are played without zeal,
                        -from which springs the need to stoke the coals

You’ve realized love’s real,
        -but only after you’ve broken the hearts
                -of those you’d never meant to steal,
                        -and tried to play the many parts

You’ve realized wrong’s real,
        -but only after you’ve played the role,
                -of the misguided judge to seal
                        -the fate of those who’d pay the toll,

You’ve realized it’s real,
        -but only after you’d run out
                -of reasons why you kneel,
                        -to the name of what you know not about,

So you’ve realized that life
        -though thoroughly unscrupulous to all,
                -tends to create much strife
                        -for those who’d welcome the fall

~Lady Claudia Magia