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lets play pretend

August 26, 2014
By megthepoet ELITE, Winnipeg, Manitoba
megthepoet ELITE, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Favorite Quote:
"We know what we are, but not what we may be" - Shakespeare




 



 



Faces stuck in worries 



                     of flavorless dinners



pretend that my actions do no harm, 



that the twenty pills meant nothing



 but my attempt to sleep



                            longer in a state of absence. 



The words I have spit 



out with a razor point tongue 



were only words from a little



 girls fairy tale



                               - meaningless. 



The air is clogged



 with the pain that



 we pretend is not there. 



 



We pretend we do not feel it



 with every inch of our aching bodies. 



A loose thread was pulled 



out of desperation. 



       I caught it on my bloody fingers. 



I was drowning and



 no one offered a life jacket 



to keep me from sinking



to keep me from the         consuming darkness that stole the 



                                     life from my worn out brown eyes. 



Lets play pretend



ill trade you smiles and you’ll feed me love.


The author's comments:

broken families pretend they do no need to mend.


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