A smile might cross your face
With something to dare not
Think about behind it.
A hurried tapping of your heel
With a place headed to that
It is not fair to ask about.
A few words seem lost in
The air. Still a message
within those breaths,
Comes clear.
As though a cape had
Drawn, across the life
Going on, an open coat
Waving behind in the
Wind. Another night
Until the smile begins
To hide that life again.

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