Smile, and it'll be fine.
So I did, even as tears made tracks down my face,
For I knew in that moment that it would never be.
Tolerable, perhaps. Painfully tolerable.
But never fine.
It's okay, you said, everything's going to be okay...
And I believed, even though my heart was breaking.
I stroked your face tenderly -
Skin that I cannot touch.
And you smiled that little smile of yours -
The smile that I never saw, and never will see.
You cracked a joke, and I had to laugh.
You make me laugh, you know.
And the moment was over, but the ache still burdens my chest.
You'll never be mine, I know that.
But I'll keep smiling...
Because you asked.
(c) Lishesque