The old man he plays let's pretend
When e'er his friends come by
And all his friends, not to offend
Pretend, affirm, and cry,
"Oh, yes, old man, oh what a friend
Both you and trophy wife are!
"How smart is she! How capably
She does the things we all do!
She's keen and cute and shape-ily
She has the latest hair-do.
Her IQ must be 101, or maybe-ly
It's more! She surely will go far."
The wife she laughs and says a word
She loudly mispronounces.
The old man, though it seems absurd
To keep her safe he pounces:
Pretends we all misheard
His 20-year old bird
Both you and me
We all, you see,
Must keep alive his fantasy.
***
Another type of make-believe
I'm sure you've been a part of
Young Amber gets engaged to Steve,
She says it's love, well sort of.
We hope and pray that Steve will leave.
Engaged they may have got;
Engaging he is not.
But no one dares to say a peep or
Make an accusation.
We all pretend that he's a keeper.
Hail the fabrication!
Pretend that you do not
Begin to smell the rot.
"Your house of cards is at an end
It is a bit uneven,
But let's pretend! Oh what a friend -
A friend you have in Stephen!"
Both you and me
We all, you see,
Must keep alive her fantasy.
***
There is no abnormality
We won't make a reality,
No thing that is amiss
But we affirm by artifice,
No fallacy or fraud
But we hail it as a god.
Though my life ends up in rubble,
I won't let you burst my bubble.
Every soul with an addiction
Demands we join him in his fiction.
Until time will have its end
We all join in "let's pretend".
2 comments:
My policy with family is this: I share with you my perspective on things once, and then commend you to prayer. I find it is counterproductive to nag family members. Non-family? I'm reluctant to call out acquaintances, but close friends fall under the family.
It's tough, so few of us have the appropriate authority to admonish somebody for his or her sins.
I tend to 'ignore' as opposed to 'play along'.
I can't imagine being put in a position where one has to 'pretend'(e.g. hearing a gay person discuss their partner).
I'd probably drift off looking at the floor or leave the room.
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