Let's Pretend

Let's pretend we never loved each other
and 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 ribboned 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