Pretend You Don't Know

I can hear them screaming and yelling through the wall,
And her cheeks are wet with tears as she takes the fall,
Surrendering herself to him with her heart in his haggard hand -
Stripped bare - no longer possessing their golden wedding band.

And her blue eyes come crying to me in the middle of the night,
As she lets it all out, and at her worst she's still a beautiful sight -
Telling me the stories of his lying and cheating ways,
The way he lied to all of us and how embarrassing it was to be played.

But as he left that night with his clothes packed in garbage bags,
He turned around and asked her for one last cigarette drag,
And as she walked over to him, with spite furling over her tongue,
She told him to use the door meant for leaving while she's young.

He looked over to me with tears in his bright blue eyes,
When he sighed and said: "Just pretend it's all a lie,
Pretend you don't know about me and what I did,
Forget about all the other girls and drugs that I hid."

And as he sped down the dirt road, leaving us behind in dust,
I looked over to his picture on the wall in misery and disgust,
As I walked over to it and stared him right in his eyes,
I whispered: "Pretend you don't know I seen through your disguise."

-Jenna Elphick
May 31, 2007