Lets Pretend

" Can we pretend that airplanes in the night skies,

are like shooting stars?

I could really use a wish right now..."

-'Airplanes' by B.OB feat. Hayley Williams & Eminem

As a child, how many times have you played pretend?

When the flimsy cardboard box turns into an impenetrable fortress; When the linoleum floor becomes a raging sea; When you sit on a chair and instantly morph into an astronaut, a pirate, race car driver, explorer.

When reality is dismissed, and the world conforms to your imagination.

Then you grow up, and pretend doesn't do it anymore in the cut-throat world of civilization. When pretend is fraud, a blessed escape from a place that, once wonderous and magical, has turned bleak and dangerous.

When the light of wisdom shining in your eyes dim, replaced by a weariness only living can bestow.

When pretense is the only way you'll survive.

So lets pretend.