Ersatz

Source: 7thboro.com

Let's play a game.

Let's pretend.

Let's pretend we're special. 

Let's pretend that we were the smartest kids we knew. 

Let's pretend we're doing absolutely marvelous. 

Let's pretend we've found love and a dog and the perfect mansion in the city with the perfect garage door. 

Let's pretend that we've found meaning in life while setting up the Ikea furniture we got at the sale. Let's pretend it was exactly the colour we wanted. 

Let's pretend to smile at our own eulogies as people pretend we were special. 

Just like they did the day we were born.

Let's pretend we don't do all of this already.