Simply pretend

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter (Video Version)

The trick
is to see the world for what it is
And love it anyway

Love it

Anyway

Scenes so cloistered
So close
The drive
Somewhere so far
So distant
It was her house
In the corner Blue Velvet played

That means something

Somewhere

Meanwhile winter
Is so hazy
As Persephone
Emerges from a cave
Of her own creation

As he so ready to play
Against gods
Who already know the future

For little more than the heated touch
Of impassioned lips
Burning
Beliving
That for a moment
You were more
Than you thought
You were

The hidden press
Touch
The rise
Swell
Longing
Greeting
The touch
Of the other
Thoughts of love
Consummated
On so little

The trick
as always
Is to see the world for what it is

And love it anyway