If You Were Real

If you were real

I’d give you an apple

and call you by your name

You’d nicker when you see me

and we’d be best friends.

If you were real

I’d tell you my secrets, my worries and fears.

you’d nudge me and

let me know everything’s okay.

If you were real you’d be in races;

I’d be the jockey,

yours and yours alone.

If you were real we would fly

across the sky,

together, you and I.

If you were real

I’d stay with you through the night

and nurse you back to health.

But you will not grow old;

and all these things I would do with you

I do in vain.