Laugh & the World Transforms You

Our ideals chase reality
As if it were any more possible
To pin down than a wave
That turns and chases back,
And we wonder what was the use
Of dreaming big.
What was the use of thinking
We could change the way things are?
You can be angry at reality,
Disappointed and bitter,
You can dig your heels into the sinking floor
And say no to what is
Flooding the very foundation
You stand on,
Or you can laugh at it,
Run with it,
And dream anyway,
Letting both real and ideal
Shape you like ripples on the sand.
Reality transforms
As we transform ourselves
In meeting it.