The desperate lunge to get it all back, to turn the pages in reverse and somehow find ourselves again. |
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Let's PretendLet’s pretend we never loved each otherand unwind all the windings Let loose those filaments we wound into a rope Make ourselves two strangers in a bar and find the glance we’ve lost across another mirror Let’s pretend tomorrow won’t be here for us Become a one night stand, leave clothes and memory torn off The lost-us found again, in lust and sweat and catching breath Not giving a damn for promises and knowing there are none Let’s pretend it doesn’t hurt to look away To follow where our eyes have gone See the drift of focus that was us, as we both speak softly, in past tenses now Becoming history, yellowed pages you and I Gone, long gone, before our time Let’s pretend we’ll come this way again Start over, somehow make it work Understand when first we touch, how to hold without crushing, how to balance, without that awful grab, as fingers slip and the last scream fades Let’s pretend we never saw each other fall That endless moment when only eyes ask why and all the trust ribbons away Did we jump, or merely lose our grip and does it even matter? We’re gone and all I hear are endless, wailing echoes Let’s pretend |
This poem is included in Jim Freeman's poetry collection CORNER OF MY MIND available here in print or as an e-Book in your favorite formats. |