Beneath Those Smiles

Beaneath those smiles are crushed dreams
Beneath those smiles are recurring heart breaks
Beneath those smiles are jaded hopes
Beneath those smiles are festivals of sadness

Beneath those smiles are blurry desires
Beneath those smiles is a bleeding heart
Beneath those smiles are futile fantasies
Beneath those smiles are odyssies that will make you quake

Beneath those smiles are heaps of failed attempts
Beneath those smiles are eyes fed up with tears
Beneath those smiles are emotions swimming in regret
Beneath those smiles are ears aching from lies and betrayal

Beneath those smiles are doses that help me maintain my sanity
Beneath those smiles is a mind filled with heaps of intention
Beneath those smiles are mouths tired of praying
Beneath those smiles are people dying silently

Beneath those smiles is a tongue waiting to taste suicide
Beneath those smiles is an album of scars
Beneath those smiles are sleepless nights
Do not be deceived by our bright and white chompers

Smiling is our way out of drowning
We all swim in sorrow’s river
Do not think nature is unkind to your soul
No one is immune to grieve’s poignant pain