She Smiles

She smiles

Yet it doesn’t reach her eyes

The depth of her pain

Kept locked away inside

She yearns to reach out

And express the whirlwind within

Yet her past torments her

Reminders crawling on her skin

Will she?

Won’t she?

Or will she close up and flee?

Past patterns repeating

Until one day she may choose differently

But the magic of opening up

She really can’t foresee.

Xo S