Play Pretend

The small children in the playhouse out back

Are playing pretend with dollies and guns

That squirt. When the bully comes to attack,

The small girl cries, and her soldier boy runs

After him into the old neighbor’s yard-

Where no other child dares to wander.

The small soldier boy hits the bully hard

But the bully yells and goes absconder

When the old man comes. He tells the mother

Of soldier boy to punish her child

For everyone to see. It can’t smother

His pride because the small girl had smiled

Her thank you. He continues to defend

And fight for her, while the world plays pretend.