Reality Redux (poem)

Before probability happened
We lived in a magic world
Where dreams were real

Where energies flowed with definitive beauty

We floated with our peers
Unburdened and unburned

by the taxonomy of the Educated

Books were enough:

They helped us fly without runways and wings.

Afternoon snacks fuelledthe intoxication of youth.

There we were, powered by words
Garnished by flutters of the heart.
Life was a living art.
The walls grew quietly around us
Like big tidal waves they did surround us
We traded our dreams
For self-conscious cleverness.

We now stare into a moonlit abyss
Looking inside a mystical well
For a sky that slipped off from beneath our feet.
-Madhavan N, 2017