Rubicon’s Reality

Actuality is of no patience

Knows not of empathy

Survives as perfunctory essence

Knowing…

Only imagination serves as foe

To this fortified movement

Where weapons of fact

Notwithstanding

Misjudges the breadth

And reach of creativity’s gentle presence

A force that can bestow on ridged landscapes

Where minions of rule-followers’

Imagination has the sentient power

To invent variations on the facts

Without falsifying realness

Why is such a boundary so enforced?

Why must the “what ifs” of life

Have to face defiance by truth’s reality?

Perhaps…

Unlike Caesar of 49 B.C.

The crossing of the line

Will not cast a die

An irretrievable violation

Some forget…

Rubicon’s reality

Awaits the non-combative

Alliance between realness

And castle-building of another kind

Where conceptualization finds solace

In embracing the imagined compliments of truth

With inventiveness and daring

To stand respectfully before reality

Yet feel the freedom to be of inventive integrity

Such is…

The historical crossing over

Into much of history’s revelations

Where many anonymous free thinkers

Became opponents of lock-step manifest.

Knowing to embrace rubicon’s reality

Was to know true freedom

Through tenacious belief in self