We're bound by our emotions.
Everyone is an image of
                                our opposite,
we may smile but our true self
                              is an image of the opposite.

An upside down grin thats our concealed truth,
                                  droplets drown within it.
Laughter that muffled the sound of tears,
                     not of joy but the longing to be heard
for what is locked inside.

But the key is lost, and only another to confide in
              will unlock this complex password
                        to ease the chains caught
within.

But you took the time,
a value of moments that over many tries
                      unlocked my emotions
and I freely cried.
You weren't judgmental,
                             you never once asked was I ok.

You just listened and advised
                                            the best you could.
And the next time I smiled,
was not smoke and mirrors this was
                           the real me for a time.

I'm not broken,
but I do need the cracks filled with
                             words of another's quite time,,
Understanding that I just need to reflect and talk.

The mirror is showing me now
                        as I was meant to be.
This smile is real,
all because you were my friend.

There for me when I was a shadow
                              of my former self.
But now I'm out the shadows
                   and nearly back to being me.