Behind a Smile

Behind well wishes and a wide smile lie sorrow and pain, hunger and loneliness, eccentricity and a turbulent battle between hope and despair. behind well wishes and a bright wide smile lie a sea of tears and graves filled with the masked figures of shattered dreams. Darkness and fog exude from the pores of the optimistic, fatigue clouds the foresight of the visionary, and insomnia ails the dreamer. Pain clouds the judgement and failure spawns fear, yet I speak words of kindness and smile as though the skies were still clear.