Optical Illusion

OPTICAL ILLUSION

It's an optical illusion but your eyes are not aware

That the dips and swirls and sudden humps simply are not really there!

I couldn't walk acrosss this room without getting vertigo!

It seems as though some parts are high and others way down low.

I'd trip over my own feet and then sprawl across the ground

And other people would do the same as I would, I'll be bound.

Soon there would be a seething mass of people feeling ill!

Though some people might enjoy it I wouldn't get a thrill!

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MIND LOCKING.

My mind requires a golden key

If I'd relive each memory.

Nothing remains of some past joys!

Deleted! How that fact annoys!

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Lazy days on far-flung beaches

Orange-orchards, sun-warmed peaches,

Crazy exploits when a girl.

Kisses that put me in a whirl.

I half-remember,  not too clearly;

Names have gone, or very nearly.

Give me that key and I'll recall, in detail, how I had a ball!

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