Bubble

Who’s to say that what you call the

           “real world”

is any less real than

           my dreams?

Have you seen them?

           felt them?          

                      tasted them?

                                      been in them?

Perhaps I’m waxing solipsist

           but you don’t know any more than I do

so shut up and let me enjoy my bubble until it pops of its own accord,

because you can’t prove that it’s any less real

          than yours,

because you can’t prove

           anything,

                      really.

Bubbles are just physics,

           surface tension,

                      really.

But you value science,

           do you not?

Why do you sing science’s praises

           but claim my bubble is any less real?

My bubble is my world,

           and it’s as real as yours.

      Yours is a bubble, too.

                You just think more people live in yours.

                            The greater the weight inside the bubble,

                                       the more pressure placed on the surface

                                                  and the more likely it is to

                                                                                                         pop.

Oops. There it goes. Sorry about that.

 

Who’s the fool now?