What you see isn't what you see (POEM) by LMH

 What you see isn’t what you see (POEM)

© LMH

 

What you see are serene smiles

masking

tumultuous thoughts.

 

I am like a clown

with a smile plastered on its face

dancing on stage to laughter and applause

but

crying on the inside.

 

The heart bleeds.

The head hurts.

Tears well up but I blink them away

and put up a nonchalant front.

 

I smile at you, serenely.

 

But, hang on.

 

If you look more closely,

you will realise

what you see
isn’t what you see. 

©Free verse poem written by LMH from BUBBLING BRAIN - ENGLISH on 8 October 2020. All original content. Please do not reproduce in any form or anywhere else without getting explicit written permission from the writer of this piece of work. Plagiarism is a crime.