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The depth of a smile

Crack a smile, pucker your lips, show us a grin and be proud of it.

Let the world know you can smile like the rest

Let yourself show that you've not down trodden or depressed

But if you can't make it true

 

**just fake a smile so as not to reveal

the depths of your despair

just pucker up and blow a kiss to someone whose not there.**

 

Let others believe you're happy, so no questions here are asked

Hide your sorrow behind a jilted expression, which not long on your face shall last.

Emotions needent be obvious to every;

Tom, **** and Harry.

But if a bunch do show up  laugh as if your merry.

Laugh not bitterly as to show the sordid feelings held below.

 

**just fake a smile so as not to reveal

the depths of your despair

just pucker up and blow a kiss to someone whose not there.**

 

Lie with your face.

Lie with your eyes.

Put those morbid thoughts behind a disguise.

Lie with your words, lie through your teeth,

never reveal what lies beneath.

For if they ponder to say

"you don't look so well are you sure you're okay..."

 

Just nod with your head and lie with your smile

then they won't ask you again.

Well not for a while.

Then let yourself sink far far away

down to where the root of the troubles resides day to day.

Hidden, masked, disguised in the dark, shattered in pieces the remains of your heart.

 

Heartbroken from heartbreak thats the thing the heart can't take

But it's a hard thing to explain, as no one understands your pain.

It's personal to you after all, it is. your heart

but don't let anyone notice cause they too could tear it apart.

 

Tear it to pieces, break it some more.

So don't let any one know the score

hide your feelings, your emotions: Be smart.

don't let them know about your heart.

 

**just fake a smile so as not to reveal

the depths of your despair

just pucker up and blow a kiss to someone whose not there**

 

They're not there for a reason;

reason being they broke your heart

But to get away from this

 

crack a smile, pucker your lips, show us a grin and hide behind it.

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Written by
josh-morter
English
Published
Apr 9, 2013
Lines·Words
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2011 poem by Josh Morter ©

Nobody can really read what your face is saying. Can they?

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