let me just pretend

take my hand
and hold me tight,
as you move me across
this decorated dance floor.
let’s be whoever
we want to be,
need to be,
to pretend this night
isn’t a dream.
to pretend that you’ll always
hold me
this way,
as if it were the last time.
to pretend that you’ll always
look into my eyes
this way,
as if it were the first time.
let me just pretend
that there isn’t life
to be lived,
that there isn’t a morning
after
the night you twirled me around
that decorated dance floor.