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Just Pretend

When the memories of yesterday

Are too much to bear,

I just pretend

I was never there.

Sometimes the pain

Is just too deep,

Nothing helps

Though I scream, yell, and weep!

In my dreams

I’m back in yesterday,

And all the pain and sorrow

Finally go away.

Then I awake

And yesterday is no more,

Unreachable,

Behind fate’s sealed door.

So when the memories of the past

Are too much to bear,

I’ll just pretend

That I was never there.

Poem copyrighted © 2004 by Lydia Warner Miller

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