Refraction

In an instant perception is bent,
And vision is altered beyond measure.
Light to dark and time no longer sufficient,
The simplest of things can be a pleasure.

By building a world of older souls,
The world became a mirrored vision.
And it pulsed through us like hot coals,
Until nothing could stop love's incision.

And like a ringing note in youthful ears,
Love became a universe of defining principle.
Its presence; permanent through joy and tears,
Its meaning complex and yet profoundly simple.

Look just beyond the glimmer of this existence,
Beyond what you have grown to merely accept.
Deeper down in your heart than dollars and noncents,
Lie possibilities unconscious, unused and unkept.

Can you see the world as a painting in red and blue
As a poetic masterpiece written for you
As an epic and a song?
Now see more than right and wrong
See more than what might seem
Delve deeper
And dream upon a dream