Fantasy and Reality

"You're quiet today,"
He said to me.
"Do you forget I'm here?
Where do you go
When you are quiet?
You forget me, Love
When you fall silent
And remain in your world.
Do you not love me where you are
And do you hope to stay.
Your world must be much better
Because, often, you go there
And I remain on Earth.
Please tell me, Love
I beg you, where do you go?"

Silently, I held my tongue
Deciding what to say.
How do you explain to someone
That there is more elsewhere
Than here on Earth, as man?
And then I opened up,
"You see, that here on Earth is pain
And in my world is love.
Here, I die as no one.
There I live forever.
Does it matter where I go
As long as I come back?
Does it matter if I leave for moments
To relax and feel again
Only to return to you
Feeling more than what I am?
I leave, when I am hurting
Seeing the world this way
When day after day
All that is given
Is pain and death
Not joy?
When distopia is all we are,
Hating and fighting each other?
Does it matter if for but a moment
I leave a world such as this
To enter one much better
And keep myself from joining Earth
In their hating of everyone else?
I go, my love, to stay
Human and loving all else
Keeping everyone else in view
Desiring only for change.
Is it then wrong to forget
The pain and suffering on Earth
For moments to see something better
To see the potential we have
That humankind can be much more?"

Quiet, but for a second,
He rose from where he sat
And whispering he began,
"It's not simply that you leave me
To enter only your world
Nor is it your motive, Love.
The problem lies in this,
In leaving this world
To your own,
You enter fantasy.
True man's potential is greater
Than what we claim it to be,
But in pretending utopia.
You leave only problems behind.
You see but for a moment
What we could fantastically be.
It makes you hate us so,
Hate exactly what you are.
You look at man distastefully
More and more each time.
When you enter only fantasy,
You see only problems here.
You cry and cry for something better,
But leave the problems behind.
You seek no solutions in leaving,
You find no solutions in your mind.
Come back and help
The pained, the suffering, the failing
Help solve the problems we have now.

"Don't go and seek the fantastic, Love.
Come help the world become
What potential we have to reach.
Don't leave me here alone.
Stay here and see
That man is trying hard
To be better than they are
Pain is not the only feeling
But LOVE is so much more.
It's in your fantasy. Love,
That Earth's problems become worse
Because your fantasy is much better.
But that is all it is, Love
A fantasy. No more.
Return to us on Earth, Love.
Return to me here.
Forget the fantasy
And be."