Bulletproof Smile
My inner world is dark beyond measure
Crashing waves
(Crashing waves)
It’s hard to breathe when the water’s up to your neck.
Odds acting against me
Increase the pressure
Endless days
(Endless days)
Copacetic on the outs but inside I’m a wreck.
I scar my face with a smile
So nobody questions me but
This pain
It is determined…
It sits, it waits in silence…
It latches on, distorting truth.
Planted somewhere inside your head
All the thoughts you wish were true
Never further from the truth
Yet you still think my smile is bulletproof.
Something says I can change
That it isn’t too late…
Stitches take time to heal
But there’s fresh skin underneath
Shiny, pink scars
(Shiny, pink scars)
Harder than before
(Harder than before)
Determined, I fall
I fall
(I fall)
But I rebound with the vitality of a rabbit
Who doesn’t want to die
Before he leaves a lesson
So that someone else can try
To find an answer for the medicine
Curing heartache’s lie
Planted somewhere inside your head
All the thoughts you wish were true
Never further from the truth
Yet you still think my smile is bulletproof.
And we bow our heads
We walk, do we walk alone?
I slipped, but caught a hand
From a face I didn’t recognize
Then caught a feeling so familiar
I swore I’d seen those eyes before
I wasn’t supposed to walk alone,
If I don’t have you beside me
At least I have your shadow
And every stranger on my way here
Left me feeling alone so,
I shared with them a lie
Coming from my face
Through conventionality’s eye
Every step will bring you closer
Don’t give up before you try.
Planted somewhere inside your head
All the thoughts you wish were true
Never further from the truth
Yet you still think my smile is bulletproof.
Copyright © Evan Moore | Year Posted 2021
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