Wednesday 31 August 2016

MASK OF SMILES


The crescent shape between her lips
Far extending into her cheeks
The golden glow in her eyes
Perfect portrait of a smile

She goes nowhere without this mask
Natural mask of perfect beauty
When your eyes do behold,
Her mask of smiles will warm your heart

You cannot help but look twice
Conspicuously white glittering teeth 
Yet it's true as they say,
All that glitters is not Gold

Her smile is all the world sees
But the wise might have noticed
Noticed why I call it a mask
Her treasured mask of smiles

Beneath this mask, thoughts can't fetch
A perpetually bleeding soul
A brutishly bruised spirit
A dungeon of wailings

A girl's life like a castle
A forbidden castle 
In a desolate city 
Within the valley of darkness

For what she has seen
What she has heard
And what's been meted upon her
Our shallow minds cannot fathom

Yet she smiles
Everyday her mask heals
Heals not only her
It heals the world!