Play-Pretend (originally called Seeing Me), a poem by Drem
Originally written May 4, 2015
the best awkward-less way I could
about the highlights of my past
the kind of person I think I look like-
all about the person I pretend I am.
Iām not trying to fool anyone.
Itās just⦠I havenāt seen me in a long while.
Iāve kind of forgotten who I was like
before all the bad stuff happened.
Time goes by in a strange way
since that day the bad stuff happened.
we canāt really do anything about.
and I have nothing to pay her with.
She thinks I look like someone
I think she has missed the company.
I talked to him, someone else, this guy,
in the grand span of things
hurt and damaged from mean cheating girls that fucked him-
Heās too young to feel so broken.
And Iām too old to be talking to him.
Iām a jaded 20-something
with no time for his high school bullshit
or her thoughts of who I used to be.
by the nights after nights,
Iām a jaded 20-something
A cold, unsympathetic someone
They donāt know I circle and circle.
The pain Iām in fills my orange bottles
The pills to manage it gives me anxiety.
The pills for anxiety causes my depression.
The pills for the depression makes me float away.
Iām in the middle of a beautiful fractal
made of orange plastic safety-capped bottles.
And my hands and forearms
Nobody has seen me in days.
Neither of them notice these bruises.
Proof iām a living, breathing shadow
if you squint really hard
Otherwise Iām borderline invisible.
I donāt care who they are.
I donāt ask any questions.
You can be whoever you want to be, too.
and Iāll believe what you want me to believe
to make us both feel a connection
we havenāt been a part of
in an awfully long while.ā
Play Pretend, a poem byĀ Drem Play-Pretend (originally called Seeing Me), a poem by Drem Originally written May 4, 2015 Rewritten Sept 1, 2016ā¦