Behind The Smile Poem by Isaac Mendez

The face is all smiley
And you keep thinking
Why they always seem happy,
You say to yourself and others
They are lucky to know no suffering
My friend keep looking
Not that they are not bothered
By anything around them
They manage to keep a smile
Beneath the smile is an ongoing-them
The smile is unto you a veil
A mask on their struggles
Look well beyond the smile
You may as well discover a tear
They carry themselves about about strongly
Their burdens could be weighing them down
They might be choking in the teeming street
And no one seems to notice them dying
Your helo could save them their lives
They might be too coy to ask for help
Take time to know them
Pass them by not in a hurry
Don't look at them
See them
You might be their groom
To take off the veil of smile
And wipe away their tears
That has been kept by disguise
You could help them uncover the beauty in their brokenness
Almost every smile is a makeup
Concealing the wounds within
They are bored with the conventional 'how are you'
They may need you to say something real
Be not interested only in talking
Join the few willing to listen
Don't just hear them
It doesn't matter how far
Or close you are to them
You should learn to look beyond the smile