My Eyes Won’t Reach My Smile

A poem.

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iPoetry
Sep 19, 2023

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I reach out to you
To share my joy
To give courage

From my heart

As I come close
It strikes me hard
That you are crying

With more honesty
Than I am smiling with

Your spirit dying with more passion
Than I have ever lived with

Yet your hope more genuine
Than all I believed was real

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