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Let’s Pretend

Brother

By VJHDPublished 3 years ago 1 min read

I kept your lighter when you died

Etched your name on it in gold

Beneath the evening skies

In the resplendence of Aprils colors

Frayed memories, elusive feelings

There will always be tomorrow

But you can’t expect me to forget

That your days are done now

Embellishing the truth of death

Amongst incomplete dreams of past

Tears that gleam like shooting stars

It rains flowers in my dreams

I’ll fill your lighter with combustible words

Use this poem to dry my eyes

Nursing bruises I can’t see

I seem to find you between the lines

Of all our favourite songs

The words couldn’t be wishes true

But I can pretend perhaps for a while

In the garden I made to remember you-

Can you mirror the moon

And stay by me in the darkest hours?

sad poetry

About the Creator

VJHD

The subsistence of our lives will live on in our words, forever encapsulating our feelings.

Words are the centre point of our existence. If we never write anything down, did we ever really exist at all?

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