Smile

There’s a war on depression street 

Where no one ever leaves  

We fight beyond fatigued

We scream until we can’t breathe

No one ever finds 

The depth hidden in our eyes 

No one knows the fatal war 

Waging on inside

It feels like 

Morbid days 

Are here to stay 

To sting in a million 

More Ways

I’m telling you 

They’ll be days like this 

Where we look up to the sky

With weary questioning eyes

Wondering why...

We are the canvas for pain

Meant to soak in more

Than we can take 

To endure the strange 

The way our bones harmonize

Before they break

Over and over again

Until pain is our only friend  

So we teach others

To contort their faces 

& Learn 

How to smile again