"Your real smile"

Smile your real smile
With twisted broken yellow teeth
I don't long for pretense
Take me underneath
To where you keep
Your real self
Live your real life
On a path of constant curves
You won't always win
Or get what you deserve
But you remain
You still remain
So I'll see that so real smile
Again

Thanks for reading. I think sometimes we're encouraged to pretend we feel better than we do.

It's not always easy to keep going in the face of difficulty or in the aftermath of something tragic but it's worth it and it's meaningful.