Nice Cover-up

Have you ever felt that you were living a lie? Not such as using a different identity or saying you have nice things and you don't, per say. I'm talking about making everyone think that you are always happy, that nothing ever worries you, or that you are living the perfect life. I feel that way most of the time. Deep inside you never know what the other person is going through. Neither do you know how bad their life seems to be day by day. A close friend wrote this poem in middle school, and I think it really relates to me. Well, here it goes...


"I Laugh A Lot"



The smile I wear fades away.

But the pain I felt in my heart still stays.


Regretting my actions of yesterday,

I cannot reveal the emotions I've kept away.


When I cry out, no one cares.

No one knows, because no one's there.


Then they notice the smile I wear

because it seems that it's always there.


Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.

Sometimes you have to kill to keep from dying.


I laugh a lot...


copyright©2006 Wallace Jackson