Let Me Pretend

How can I ache with desire as such,

On nights I turn my mind off?

Not now, not on a night so calm—

I can’t handle it—not tonight.

I can’t think of you at this moment,

My thoughts are needed elsewhere,

I cannot afford to sit, wondering…

What it would be like.

I can’t waste time asking what if,

When I know we live separate lives.

Passion is needed elsewhere,

These thoughts must not survive—

Please not now, on a night so calm—

I can’t handle it—not tonight.

Don’t pull me back in

When I don’t have the time.

I know who I am, and who I’m not;

Tonight is not for make-believe,

Tonight there will be no fight.

    DannYetman

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