Let Me Pretend

Let Me Pretend

Why can't I just let it go

How can it be so deeply embedded

Can't I pretend it never happened

Believe it was all unreal

As if you never said anything to me

Like it was just a dream

Passion inside, immersed but unfurling

A chance that I hadn't ever seen

And never will see

I suppose

I never looked twice but

Now I can't stop seeing you

I held so tight

To my own heart

I caught myself

Before you let me fall

Now its all gone

And its done and

I didn't have the hands to catch you too

Let me pretend and let me let go

Let me lock away these qualms

For forever and a day

I shall lament but

My sentiments I shall hide

And the pain, so abysmal and private

Let me think it never was

Like it was just a dream

Outbursts of hope

Relentlessly dimmed unto sorrow

Maybe I can see you, but

Its like looking through the mist

And now I need to pretend

Need to make-believe

So that reality cannot follow

So that this will become just a dream

A dream with my eyes wide open.