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Chapter 3 - The weight of a smile

You wake up every morning

Ready to put on a fake smile

Throughout the day

You smile through the pain

Even though it's hurts a lot

You smile even when the jokes are not funny

You sometimes ask yourself

Do I smile because I find it funny

Or because I have to

You wonder

At the end of the day

After you take your smiley mask off

You breathe a sigh of relief

Because you are all alone now

In a presence

Where you can finally be yourself