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Fake Smiles

October 6, 2011
By emilyjean BRONZE, Southboro, Massachusetts
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emilyjean BRONZE, Southboro, Massachusetts
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it’s not about the past. it’s not even about the future. it’s about today. it’s about this moment. because in all reality, this moment, this second, this instant is all we have.

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Im always known as
“the happy one”.
No doubt I love being happy,
Yet there’s still something
Strange about it.
Not a day goes by
Without a big smile
Plastered to my face.
It’s like a tatoe
That can never be removed.
Somedays all I want to do
Is tear it off. Show that
I can be weak too.
But then I remember
Everyone that I help:
Friends,family,
Stranger I meet on the street.
And then I realize
That I turn their entire day around.
Simply with a smile.

© Roxana R., Tustin, CA

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Ella1 GOLD said...
on Jan. 28 2012 at 12:08 pm
Ella1 GOLD,
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I can relate! Great job! Would you mind reading my poem A Pink Watch, Portal, and Perpetual Sea if you get a chance? Thank you!
Undefeated101 BRONZE said...
on Nov. 22 2011 at 7:46 pm
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This is so me!

 

andromeda13 SILVER said...
on Nov. 22 2011 at 6:53 pm
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Truly amazing and uplifting poem. :D Great work.