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Let's Play Pretend

 

Let's play pretend.

Let's pretend we know who we are,

Where we have been, 

What we have seen.

Let's play pretend. 

 

Let's pretend we care about life,

That we care for ourselves.

Dress up, 

Make up,

Cock up.

 

Face the facts it's all a farce,

Life is not what we see. 

Life is darkness

Black

Gone.

 

I can play pretend - 

I am ok. 

I am good at this game. 

I can carry on. 

I will be fine.

Bipolar depression sadness masked

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Robert Mann

Tue 13th Jun 2017 01:22

Louise - excellent appreciation that life itself is just a façade. Nice one.
Rob

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