Molly Pendleton · Sep 20, 2011
How to Smile

Stop!

She screamed;
Curling blood coated
Fingers into tightened fists


How is it that you can smile?
I’ve given you a thousand reasons to cry


But

She replied
Lips gnawed raw
As they shaped words

If I can just forget you and see the rest of the world
I have a million reasons to smile

So many asterisks. So little time.
 
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