# Smile A smile is a small thing, barely a ripple on the face— yet it carries the weight of suns, the silence of oceans. When you smile, you open a door I didn't know existed. Light pours through like water finding its level, like breath finding its rhythm. I have seen smiles that were lies dressed in silk, smiles that hid whole graveyards of longing. But yours— yours is different. It arrives unannounced, a bird landing on an open palm, and suddenly the ordinary room becomes a place of pilgrimage. A smile is just muscle and skin, they say. But they have never seen how it rewrites the world, how it makes even sorrow lean toward light.

Smile...Pretend to be cheerful...
Even though it seems hopeless.
Arrest your Sadness in the closet of the Soul...
But caress it gently.

Wrap it warm...Put her to sleep somehow.
Take yourself in your hands...And show yourself...
Friends and enemies are waiting for you outside...
To look at you...Smile!

Smile...Even if it's disgusting...
Confused...Let them shut up.
Sensation! Lust! Exclusive!
Despite everything...Appear smiling.

Smile...Even...Even when your
Soul is sick with grief.
And you vengeful Sadness
in your room at night invades.

What does it cost you...It's not hard at all...
Try...Definitely...On vacation...
Who said...All your wrinkles
are always traces of past smiles.