Let's Pretend

Let's make a wish
that the Barbie house
becomes our house
let's imagine
that their clothes in the cupboard
are ones we fit into

Let's pretend
that the tennis court is Noddy's town
happy, full of primary colours
let's allow
for the bike to be a red car
in the happy town

Let's make believe
that the Christmas lights are for every Monday
the decorations
are real, for an eternity, let's try
and also
that the waves in the ocean
are warm,
we can float for an afternoon without goosebumps

Let's construct
that all the terror, and hitchhiking horror
never happened, and it was proportioned all right

Let's believe
no grief, belief chorused in the speed, sectioned

a new hymn of life
sung risen.