Real life by Alan.s.Robinson

You have to walk to see the world

For the earth gives up it’s secrets but slowly

In a car it flashes by too fast

And there’s no time to equate with strangeness

I know I’m not the only one who

Who sees the photograph and says that this is not right

See the colours they’re all wrong

It’s twice as beautiful in the real world

In the real world

Think of all the pretty sights you’ve seen

How long you carry them with you

But as you turned your head away

All was lost, but all was saved

You only have one chance to look

Only this moment in which to read this body

Like when you put down a good book

You’ll never read again with quite the same outlook

I know I’m not the only one who

Who sees the photograph and says that this is not right

See the colours they’re all wrong

It’s twice as beautiful in the real world

In the real world