Behind the Smile

Can you see that behind this smile
Is a sadness buried deep?
Can you see behind the charade
The tears I always keep?

Why must it be this way?
The anguish and the tear?
Why must I always have
These sorrows and these fears?

I ask all of these,
But there’s one question I must know.
Why can’t you see the real me
Hiding behind this show?

Why can’t you see the way I hurt inside?
Why can’t you see that inside I always cry?

Is it really that hard to see?
Do you even try?
Do you even look to see if what’s right here is me?

Maybe you don’t know.
Maybe you’re just naïve.
Or maybe you just don’t want to see
The scars that life can leave.

I wish you would just look
To see behind this shadow.
Behind this false smile
Is the flickering light darkness will soon swallow.

Hiding behind this cover
Is the me that is crying.
Please just help me -
But maybe you don’t feel like trying?