Let’s pretend
Let’s pretend
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Sometime little is better than nothing.
Let pretend.
First drink, last drink.’ It doesn’t matter my friend.
Smoked filled taverns keep the saints and angels away.
Just us sinners and forgotten people waiting at the Purgatory Inn for something
to live for.
Pretty woman with many tattoos sit with me and request a poem.
Told me tell me the liar prayer. I need some false hope today.
I told her it will be my pleasure.
Liar prayer
Let’s pretend we are lovers.
Founding paradise of two lonely people.
Let’s pretend we are in love.
I have pray for you to come.
Let’s pretend we have tomorrow.
I want to find peace in your eyes.
Please allow me to fall into the cold bed with you.
Light up dead candles of hope.
I want us to not play dead. Excepting too little.
I want you to show me wild passion and make my world explode.
Let’s lay together nude. Whisper twisted words of love.
Make promises we cannot keep.
Show me some sort of love.
Walk with me. Hold me like I’m your first love and last love.
Let’s watch the sea retreat back to deep water.
Let’s watch the sun rise.
Allow me to embrace you and
whisper words of love that cannot be.
Please my angel, my demon.
Let’s pretend we are in love.”
The tattoos beauty looked sad and asked me. “Can the dead rise?
Does dead in heart mean buried forever? Will you pretend to love
and need me? Better to know some kind of feeling my Poet friend than to
die with whiskey and alone.”
Old Poet smiled. Brought the beauty near. Kissed her lips and told her.
The liar prayer is true. We learn to accept less. It not the pure love of
the youth in life. Sometime accepting what we need.
Is enough.
Coyote
Sublimely accurate. A moving and thoughtful read, thank you.
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Thank you Mike for reading and the comment.
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Mellow ! No
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This one… you’re speaking what’s in my heart. ! I don’t have the best words right now to offer in comment, only that this one really went inside.
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Reminds me of the album art for Combichrist’s newest album (seen in the video below), and the lyrics to this song on it. Excellent poem. Traditionally in Christianity all angels are men, but I like to daydream about female angels. I call them “angels without wings”. Though if you read into Hollywood folklore about angels, sometimes the “angels without wings” are demons who fell from heaven, having their wings stripped from them. Don’t read into things like me passing judgement, mentioning Christianity though, I am a Christian, but I’ve enjoyed at times attention like you wrote about, and the song I’m sharing is definitely not a Christian song. Just sharing it because your awesome poem and picture reminded me of it. It also reminded me of the movie Constantine, which I really like.
“Throat Full Of Glass”
by Combichrist
Beyond cruel will received
The comfort in a broken heart
Now palette shades
An image after life
(After life)
Alone
Surrounded by a million faces
One by one
I see the judgment in your eyes
(I see the judgment in your eyes)
Like a disease
I’m always in the wrong
And now the numbness wearing off
Can’t stand the pain
I get in line
(I always do)
I always do
Need to be patient while perfecting
That’s the sign
I cannot help it, can’t decline
It’s always better down the line
I’m in the wrong and I’ve done it all before
And I wish I’d never been
And I know it’s just a dream
Now I’m blind I can open my eyes
Can’t stay awake
Burning alive
I cannot breathe this poison air filled with lies
I cannot see
What’s done to me
Live in fear
The sun is falling from the sky
Can’t stay awake
Nothing left to break my rivals
In a thousand pieces, million reasons
Why should I keep myself away?
(Hard to define)
Hard to define
(It always is)
It always is
It’s hard to scream with a throat full of glass
(Throat full of glass)
I cannot help it, can’t decline
It’s always better down the line
I’m in the wrong and I’ve done it all before
And I wish I’d never been
And I know it’s just a dream
Now I’m blind I can open my eyes
Can’t stay awake
Burning alive
I cannot breathe this poison air filled with lies
I cannot see
What’s done to me
Live in fear
The sun is falling from the sky
Can’t stay awake
(Can’t stay awake)
Can’t stay awake
Burning alive
I cannot breathe this poison air filled with lies
I cannot see
What’s done to me
Live in fear
The sun is falling from the sky
Can’t stay awake
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Thank you for reading and the song. All words and thoughts come from somewhere. Need reasons to write and create.
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this rocked. seriously.
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Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
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as long as its not for ulterior gains, there is nothing in uttering meaningless words of love, as long as they dont include fake promises or break hearts i guess 🙂
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I was single and a soldier for 12 years. There are places for all things.I learn what life should be. Raised four children and I became a mellow old man. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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