Mask We Call A Smile

Did you wake up this morning
And wish this was all just a phase?
Like tomorrow will be better
Ever have those days?

Where you just can’t seem to bring yourself
To stand on your own two feet
To get up and face the world
When your life feels so incomplete?

When I search for some hope
I look up into the skies
But the world is a sweeping sadness
Through my depressed eyes

I study people passing by
They seem to look right through me
No, they take a glance
And ignore the unhappy

Maybe my eyeliner hides my bloodshot eyes?
Maybe my powder hides my tears’ trails?
I take such pride in hiding
And paying attention to little details

Are we all contained
In a mask we call a smile?
We’re so used to concealing
That we’ve become so versatile

But still I try to assure myself
That there’s still hope yet
And God knows that in the future
I’ll need all the help I can get

But when I’m feeling down
I’ll sweep my fingertip across my necklace
And feel it’s engraving run through my mind
When a true smile floods my face

I wear my necklace everyday
And use it to guide me whenever I’m pushed and shoved
Because I always need a little reminder
It reads “I am loved”

by loveme77
posted on 04/15/2008