The Other World

I close my eyes

and the world changes.

No longer reality, but no less real.

Physical order no longer applies

-not as long as I don’t want it to;

I can jump centuries

and thousands of miles in an instant.

I can change build, looks, gender even.

I become someone else

my image of my soul,

who and what I really am?

Unbound.

Here I am safe at last.

Here I am close to love;

never alone, never without hope.

I know who my friends are,

who to trust,

what’s right, what’s wrong.

Not a perfect world,

but one to feel at home in.

No need to explain;

everything of depth is known.

I’m understood in the other world.

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