Reality

What is reality, I wonder?

Wake up and walk through your door,

Still in chains as a prisoner child

Seeing all the other adults live and free.

What is reality, I wonder?


See all the people around you

Fighting cruelly to death,

Their faces blank, their bodies moving

All concentrating on war.

What is reality, I wonder?


Look at the other children

When going back in the prisoner,

See the master

Talk about undone chores and punishments,

Repeated all the time

Same thing again, again.

What is reality, I wonder?


Go back home,

Back through the streets

After you've been slaved at the city,

The others go through you

Without no notice,

The people still in stones

As you claim your surreal freedom.

What is reality, I wonder?


Find some food,

In the dustbin or beg

No one cares,

The things never change

As your hunger increases in the dark.

What is reality, I wonder?


Going up somewhere else,

Somewhere cosier

Like a dumped sofa in the night,

Fall asleep through surreality

Open your window up wide

And fade through surreality in the misty wind.

What is reality, I wonder?