The old man he plays let’s pretend

When e’er his friends come by

And all his friends, not to offend

Pretend, affirm, and cry,

“Oh, yes, old man, oh what a friend

Both you and trophy wife are!

 

“How smart is she!  How capably

She does the things we all do!

She’s keen and cute and shape-ily

She has the latest hair-do.

Her IQ must be 101, or maybe-ly

It’s more!  She surely will go far.”

 

The wife she laughs and says a word

She loudly mispronounces.

The old man, though it seems absurd

To keep her safe he pounces:

Pretends we all misheard

His 20-year old bird

 

Both you and me

We all, you see,

Must keep alive his fantasy.

 

***

 

Another type of make-believe

I’m sure you’ve been a part of

Young Amber gets engaged to Steve,

She says it’s love, well sort of.

We hope and pray that Steve will leave.

Engaged they may have got;

Engaging he is not.

 

But no one dares to say a peep or

Make an accusation.

We all pretend that he’s a keeper.

Hail the fabrication!

Pretend that you do not

Begin to smell the rot.

 

“Your house of cards is at an end

It is a bit uneven,

But let’s pretend! Oh what a friend –

A friend you have in Stephen!”

 

Both you and me

We all, you see,

Must keep alive her fantasy.

 

***

 

There is no abnormality

We won’t make a reality,

No thing that is amiss

But we affirm by artifice,

No fallacy or fraud

But we hail it as a god.

 

Though my life ends up in rubble,

I won’t let you burst my bubble.

 

Every soul with an addiction

Demands we join him in his fiction.

 

Until time will have its end

We all join in “let’s pretend”.