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lets play pretend
August 26, 2014
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.
© Treza R., Kalispell, MT
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