A Real World

there is a real world out there

I’ve been set fire by it

there are no ghosts

but I’ve seen what they meant

camping at the base

of Hell’s Mountain of A Thousand Needles

there is no God

but I met who they were talking about

guessing coffin lengths correctly

one size fits most

there is a silence in an ever-still child that makes you forgive any shouts or cries before

there is a color red the sky gets

only after we have done our worst

there is a real world