Are We Real?
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Are we real? Are we just dreamers?
Will they build a wall between us?
As we’ve taken each step forward
Have they taken two steps back?
Are we real? Are we mistaken?
Will they strike as we awaken?
Will they tie our hearts behind us
And break us on the rack?
Are we real? Are we just fools?
Hearts get broken – Never rules
Are all our aspirations so easily repressed?
Are we real ? Are we suspended?
Lost in love already ended?
What price must we pay
To be different from the rest?
Are we real ? Are we prepared –
To admit we never cared –
For their petty impositions
And the standards they defined?
Are we real ? Are we obtuse?
Dull and dazed from lack of use?
Can we offer no resistance
To the scheme that they designed?
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© James Alan Gourley 2019. All rights reserved.