I close my eyes
and let my life go
when my eyes open
I see a world with trees
where skyscrapers were
and open fields
where the parking lots were
a world still green
It’s all so beautiful
it seems luminous
perfect in everyway
but soon it fades away
like the memory of a dream
if the way you perceive the world
is all that matters,
I want to see the world
that way all the time

From my book Conversations in secret