When Optimism Smiles

If you dig six feet under and then go under the coffin and right before you get to hell you will find what's left of my smile I once wore my smile like the joker dripping with bloody tears But this isn't one of my sad poems because it's not about what I lost but what's still left Because my concrete interior from all the hard times can still let the softness of a flower breathe I will no longer suffocate from self-sabotage So, watch me turn this smirk of pain into a Texas smile born in Tennessee Country heart that lives the city You can have the best of both worlds when becoming a 10 isn't about being perfect But finding the one weakness where you have zero confidence and adding it to consistency for the best results I will survive because I was born for a purpose beyond my feelings I will be strong because the past doesn't define me, but it did shape my future carving away the roadblocks into a marble sculpted rose Now joined with optimistic company p.s. I wear my smile like a bouquet of roses watered by perspective...