THE GUIDE

Let me take you far away
from the world of everyday
where you can't be the real you
that young person you once knew
before the years wore you away.

I can take to both forest and fen
away from all the urban din
where any reflection which you see
is the one you're meant to be
not someone with feet of clay.

Or close your eyes to really perceive
that the "real" world is make believe
built of naught but false images
that blind our eyes like errant midges
all so easily flicked away.

Perhaps on some cold clear night
with slivered moon there in plain sight
we might travel to distant stars
using worm holes like fast cars
to see how other life might play.

The future as well as the past
all seen as if already cast;
from big bang until the end of time
connected as if a long rhyme
or the pages of a play.

So come if you have the urge.
I've words and time enough to splurge.
We'll see all there is to see
and become what we're meant to be
and more than, if you choose to stay.