Flatsound- Oliver's Second Poems for Speech

If We Could Just Pretend

Where did you go?
What did you do
With all the time
You were too scared to move?

What is it like
To be by yourself
For three and a half years?
For roughly three and a half years?

If we could just pretend
That I went to college
And that is why you
You haven't seen me
I wanted to go
But not for this long
I overdid it
I overdid it

Why did you say
That I was one in a million?
'Cause I believed it, I thought
I had something that you
Were too scared to lose

So if we could just pretend
That I went to college
And traveled abroad
And did something different
Anything but
Just sitting at home
For three and a half years
Writing song after song after song

So what is it like
To be by yourself?
And not feel like you'll die
Around everyone else?
I thought I was one in a million
Well thanks for nothing

Yeah, thank you
Thank you