Conceal

What do you do when the storm rolls in?
You hide in a raincoat and a plastic grin.

How do you bear the lack of light?
You just smile and nod, you don't put up a fight.

When your angry or hurt, can anyone tell?
No, you just keep your happy face on and survive through this hell.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Beesley Avatar
July 31, 2010 at 12:28 PM
short but very sweet.so many people wear counterfeit smiles while feeling furious frowns,some of them soon to be homocidal clowns pumpin bullets and rounds into men dressed like mannequins be real it's not a sin
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July 28, 2010 at 7:41 PM
wow! your poem seems to be the story of my life,, I trulllly can relate to your last couplets the most...Enjoyed,..p.d.
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