Take a second and look at me?

Am I everything that I appear to be?

You know me for my smile,

the constant giggle you hear.

I bet you couldn’t imagine what I hide inside.

Lonely nights of crying and scars.

My tortured mind that escapes at night.

Pretend the next day that everything is okay.

I crack a smile at the joke you made

unknowingly mocking me.

Afraid to say that I’m dying inside.