I’ll Keep Pretending

• Yen Ngo, Grade 8, St Norbert's College
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Top Secret 2016' competition

This warmth is nothing but just a lie,
But I still pretend like I don’t know this,
Your hands will turn cold if this keeps going,
Then I’ll feel the cold, like ones in the abyss.

As the way you laugh slowly changes,
And your eyes stare off somewhere faraway.
In the dark, gloomy nights, I’m alone,
And so, I will still be, in the day.

This is why I asked you several times,
“Still why do you embrace me so?”
That is you looked away many times too,
So now it seems like I’m your foe.

I guess our time has already ended,
And now this feels like a taboo.
In the depths of despair, I secretly cried.
Still, I want to be beside someone like you.