There Is Forgiveness In a Smile

He smiled when he saw his countrymen fighting He smiled when his heart was crying He smiled when he stood against the odds He smiled when he followed his God He smiled when he was finally freed He smiled when injustice tried to bend his knees He smiled when he lost his first heart throb He smiled when he was snubbed He kept smiling in the face of adversity Lord have mercy His style, was to flash a big welcoming smile A smile can quiet words filled with rage And it’s worked from the beginning of time To this present age Why smile? Because it’s a sign to those who know not what they’re doing That upon their heads, heaps of coals they’re incurring If they only knew what they were doing…….