Reality Incarnate

In the day that cannot be, I would tell you that I loved you
In the place where eyes can't see, I would show you that had me
Disarmed and rent from comfort of a 'settled for' today
I'm charmed and left inspired as colour bursts forth from grey

In a truth that's disallowed, I would wake you from your slumber
In this impossibility, I would roll in like the thunder
On an unsuspecting sea, I would tug and pull you under
I would hold you all my days and would not be torn asunder

This paradox is built on your beauty, charm and frankness
This puzzle and its pieces bring patterns to the blankness
Your smile flashes forth and 'Jerichos' my defences
This love blunders on and I'm caught up, it is relentless

If I could tear time from its footings, and force history to alter
If I could take this world and make it shake and shift and falter
There's a risk that I would do, if I lost my moral compass
Even then with paths marked out, I might find myself as helpless

To resist this teenage spell, this nonsense, delightful tempest
Like the sea obeys the moon, so I'm dragged towards your loveliness
Like the sinner needs the truth, and the gambler the take up
Is the strength to shun love's nature, something I have in my makeup ?

But a mirror can't be held, I can't pick and choose from its reflection
A truth that has been told, cannot a lie be, there's no retraction
And a question now remains, that I can't shake, in spite of logic
And in it is a key to something unseen, unpredictable and stoic

If this reality was the real one, if this muse, reality incarnate
If now was then, and low was high and the ambient a river in spate
If west and east were mirrored, and space was filled with voices
Would you deign to dance with me, would you make these self-same choices?