three imaginary boys

robert, porl and simon walked the path
none of them existed
they were all products of imagination
robert was the idea of anne, a freckled redhead from suburbia in australia
porl was a figment of sophia von hagia, a greek exile from the hellespont
and simon was the creation of the moustachioed matilda of the outer hebrides
their creators never met
not even in a virtual sense
as they lived and died in a time before the interweb
before mobile phones, faxes and digital imagery
nevertheless they existed on a parallel plain
they smiled in the face of the darkening eve
and felt their juvenile emotions more devastatingly than grown-ups
whose imagination sunk without trace amidst careers, mortgages and the 'real world'
all they had to do was create something that had never been
in any universe...