If This Is

© 1993, Troy K Spears

If this is dream,
it is a good dream
that make me also good
by its charms and mystic devices.

If this is foolery,
history is full of fools,
loudhearted and big,
and falling at the feet of my dream,
I would be in good company.

If this is falsehood,
it is false as the moon is false,
and she must show her several faces
in order to be comprehended whole.

If this is truth,
it is a dangerous truth,
for each flower and gentle word,
each look and fond remembrance,
brings its own chance
of collapse.