smile

He wakes up with a knife in his fist,
he looks down
at the gashes in his wrist.

He smiles and laughs, and wipes up the blood,
but his eyes are gates
that hold back the flood.

He goes to school, and jokes with his friends
but deep in his soul
all he wants is an end.

So he goes to the bathroom, he says for a drink,
he turns on the faucet,
shoves his head in the sink.

He inhales the water with a grin from ear to ear
but the water tastes salty
from the flood of his tears.

He goes to the classroom and says he feels ill
he goes to the nurse
and tries too many pills.

And as he wanders around from place to hellish place
he knows, his body is an empty shell
with a fake smile on its face.

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