you're the positive one
or so you try and prove
plastered smile
flippant ways
but you haven't mastered
the concealment of your eyes
truth bursts from them
the sadness
   and anger
the insecurity
   and need

and the hurt
the hurt is most obvious

let the tears flow
let them wash away the falseness
know no shame
in being less than perfect
for less than perfect
is perfection at it's finest.