1. The quality of appearing to be true or real.
2. Something that has the appearance of being true or real.

a very cool cat
or so they say
but I found him wandering one day
and didn’t know what was real or fake
it made me shake
my head
in wonder

years in bed with this dude
now seem like a lifetime of crude
unreality

I’m left now
jagged
by circumstance
I thought I had a chance to be
that once in a lifetime lover
I took him for

a poet friend wrote and I quote:
“I can’t abide the you in me
that reacts to life so differently.
You’re wrong, so wrong, you
and your ways.”

and so it goes