The Parallel World

I used to live in a parallel word.
A place where,
On the cusp of a dream,
Life took a different path;
Where nights were longer than days.
I did not know how to leave
Or even know I should.
I existed there a long time.

Today I woke to find
I was home.
I must have clicked red heels three times.
It's not the old cliche
That it was a dream all along
Because I'm older now - 
Perhaps wiser too.
I grieve for the many years that passed,
Yet rejoice that they
Brought me here.

For here is where
Everything seems possible.
All that I was and worked for
So long ago -
The life, wife, mother,
Friend, performer
Who existed then
Is living now
In Me.
And she wants
To uncover the world.