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Fake Smile

December 11, 2014
By CJColeman BRONZE, Lexington, Kentucky
CJColeman BRONZE, Lexington, Kentucky
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She sat in the back
Of the room.
Everyday.
Scared to open up,
Scared to show
What's really going
On.


Hiding behind a
Fake Smile.
Scared to show
She's Broken, that
Her family is
Broken.
Hiding her
Loneliness,
Abandonment,
And
Scars.
Behind a
Fake Smile.
Going home
To a single
Parent household.
Just having one
Parent around.
Her dad always
Busy with
Work and bills.
Scared to show
Them she's
Not okay. So
She puts that
Fake smile back on.
Pushed down by
Her mother.
"You're not good
Enough, you are worthless"
She yells over the
Phone.
"Why can't you
Be pretty? Why
Can't you be
Smart?" she screams
Until her daughter
Is in tears until
She's had
"ENOUGH." the
Little girl screamed
And hung up.
Running to
Get away from
Her pain. She's
Scared to show
How BROKEN
She is.
How her whole
World is
Falling apart.
How she feels
Unloved,
Alone,
Abandoned,
Worthless,
She trys
So
HARD!
To hide the
Pain she's in
With that
Fake smile.
She thinks nobody
Notice but
I do.
I see right
Through that
Fake Smile she
Puts on every
Day.
I want to
Go up to her
And say
"You are
beautiful and
Smart. You don't
Need to put that
Fake smile
On everyday.
It's okay.
To show your
Broken.
You are who
You are and
You shouldn't
Change that for
ANYBODY!
We all have
Scars.
Thats what makes
us unique.
You are
Unique.
People push you
Down, but you
Have to get right
Back up and show
Them you are
A fighter, you are
beautifully and
Perfectly imperfect.
You show them that
What they say
Will not stop you
But give you more
Reasons to strive
For sucess. So
Put that fake
Smile to rest.
Because
You are perfectly
Imperfect."
The boy who
Lost
Everything.

The boy who
Sat with that
Girl in the back
Of the room
everyday.


The author's comments:

This Poem is in the Voice of a boy who said this to me. The little girl is Me.


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on Mar. 27 2015 at 2:37 pm
CountryRose GOLD, Goshen, Indiana
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Favorite Quote:
I wanna be a girl that when I get out of bed
in the morning Satan says "Oh crap she's up!"

You are an amazing writer!!!

on Mar. 27 2015 at 2:36 pm
CountryRose GOLD, Goshen, Indiana
12 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
I wanna be a girl that when I get out of bed
in the morning Satan says "Oh crap she's up!"

this is really realistic and it puts the reader in the girls world and it makes you shiver. I love it. I kinda know where it's coming from too