smile

Cheap

She had nothing left to give

Not of her body nor soul

Drained

She could give no more

But a smile

As faint as it might be

A smile

That’s all he needed to see

Never had they known

A medicine

Made of a smile so small

And a healing

So cheap

She wears a mask

Unashamed

Not because she’s ugly

Not because she’s afraid

Behind the mask she can safely hide

She knows they don’t care to know the colors inside

Truths can’t be untold

Here she lays with a different mask to hold