Your Smile

Loneliness visits
when stranded alone
Confirming the emptiness
—lost to bemoan

The darker the moment
the thicker it spreads
To lie and to cover 
—my spirit in dread

It blocks every motion
I make to get out
Its shroud to enshadow 
—within and without

As somber it tenants
it knows all the while
Its life but a memory
—the moment you smile

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Ray Avatar
June 9, 2022 at 5:16 PM
a smile can change the world indeed....loved it
Behm Avatar
June 9, 2022 at 6:23 PM
Thanks you, Timothy
Sands Avatar
May 26, 2022 at 2:57 PM
Excellent poem . I love it. A fave :)
Behm Avatar
May 26, 2022 at 6:15 PM
Thanks so much, Heidi.
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