What Is Real?

What Is Real?
By Bob Schieffer, ABC News

A child’s question once asked of me,
“If I can’t see it can it be?
I see my toy—I know it’s there,
I feel my arm, I touch my hair.

These are things I know to be,
But what of things I cannot see?
What of the wind—where does it go?
Are there other things to know?”

Oh yes my dear, and soon you will find
They are locked inside the heart and mind.
Sweet love’s desire, a mother’s prayer,
More real than all we see out there.

More real than sun, and moon, and rain,
At first much harder to explain.
The only thing that I can say,
I say it now in just this way.

What is real and what is not—
Love is real, the rest is not.

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