With a prompt given by a student teacher, I was to write based off of the line, “Let’s Pretend That”. When this came to mind, all I could think of is the degeneration and deterioration of something that was once healthy, and that the sensation of wishing something was different still held.

Let’s Pretend That

Let’s pretend that a thousand lifetimes ago

The first day

Where your tabletops were brown and looked healthy

Instead of rugged and torn

And where your floors weren’t torn apart like a hundred tigers

That couldn’t stay away from digging their nails

In your carpet like a scratch post

Let’s pretend that faces never had to turn blue

And that air was always welcomed into your body

Where hands never shook like an earthquake

Until they held stiff and frigid

A thousand lifetimes ago