I smile through the pain. I smile in vain. I smile to show the world that I’m okay when really I’m not. This smile graced upon my face is only a mask that doesn’t have much grace at all. This smile is broken. This smile is torn. This smile is lost. This smile is what fools the world to think that everything’s fine when everything is not. “I’m fine, I’m fine,” I tell myself. Just to keep my forever burden hidden beneath the surface of a soft rock. This smile is painful and this smile sucks. I hate everything about it, but now it’s stuck.
-TC
