FROM BOTH SIDES NOW

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

 

- Elizabeth Bowen

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NdsnFZm0X4

From Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell on The Mama Cass Show 1969

 

ILLUSIONS

 

Wisteria on a window sill; peeling paint inside

beauty on the outside; pain contained within.

Timeless faded grandeur; true nature reaches out;

divided by transparent walls; secured by secret pins.

Ethereal light and palest mauve; red muted in the dark;

the blossoms of a different world will always light my heart,

as I inhale the musky scent, that sets my soul on fire;

release a long-held memory; recall a sultry night,

I hear a sound of tinkling bells; a call of distant drums;

a whispered sweetness in my ear, before I close my eyes.

I fall into the deepest sleep and dream of harps and choirs;

of angels, minstrels, knights and realms; of jesters, larks and lyres.

An archer strikes, with cupid's bow, the centre of my heart,

before I taste that one sweet kiss; I wake up with a start.

Reality it seems to me is what we can create,

but also we can choose to dream and leave the rest to fate …

 

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