Deep Inside You

• Salwa El Chami, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2017

I can see pain blooming behind your eyelids
I can see you fighting the tears filling your eyes
I know it all, I can feel it against my heart
All hidden behind this faked smile.
I can hear your silence, I can see the dark
I can't fix the broken, but I do feel your heart.
I can see how your words are slowly fading away
While your heart is been chattered away
I can see the slightest hint of your smile as
It escapes in the speed of a snowflake
I can see it all unfolding just in front my eyes
But you try cover them with your lies
And I'm thinking to myself
“How many smiles did you fake today?”