Reality

There is so often a sound track to my life and today it is The Hobbit's theme from Lord of the Rings.  The plaintive sound of a flute singing of real love and real limitations, of the pain of love and joy and living through the reality of a world that is not necessarily kind.

I want the fairy tale ending and I want it quickly before the main characters suffer through the dark side and doom descends upon a world once so full of promise.

I want the wise wizard to materialize and lead everyone to a sane and reasonable end.

I want rainbows that promise no more floods.  No more floods of grief, or words, or hopelessness.

I want children focusing on who they can be and what they can do, not weeping into their pillows for what has gone before.

I want a world where Aslan and the Snow Queen become one without sacrificing so many innocents.

And the haunting dirge of that flute plays my heart away from my head.