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.

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Anthony Beesley

Date: 7/31/2010 12:28:00 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

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 7/28/2010 7:41:00 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.