• A false Smile
    is what I bear
    just for you.
    The laughter and happiness
    is also a facade.
    It is all meant to make you think
    I'm perfectly fine,
    when really
    I'm not.
    When you aren't around
    the mask comes off
    and I'm able to be myself --
    the same miserable,
    lonely,
    unhappy person
    I have been
    for far too long.
    But please...
    be around me.
    Make me wear that smile,
    and laugh,
    and be happy.
    Just don't go away...at least...
    not until those things
    are made real.