Sunshine

[Annael]

I look in the mirror

and don't recognize my own face

the pain and despair of the past year

have taken their toll.

 

I'm tired all the time

my eyes no longer sparkle

my face has lost all colour

and my hair is dull and lifeless.

 

I don't know how to continue on

I hear all the troubles of the world

and those of my friends

and I take them into myself.

 

But then something happens

and I smile.

Then those around me start

to smile as well.

 

Sunshine is what they say

and what they call me

so my job has now become

to fill others with Sunshine.

 

But sometimes I find it so hard

to be the Sunshine for others

when all I feel is pain

and no light at all.

 

Sunshine is what I must be

so I hide who I am

and what I feel

to be the Sunshine to you.

 

Smile, and make it worthwhile.

[Gyrfalcon]

*Gyr applauds, but thinks that perhaps letting your closest friends know that you aren't happy, and that you hurt would be a good idea. You don't have to be the only source of sunshine in the world...*

[Ozymandias]

Considering getting philosophic, then dismissing the idea.

 

I'll just agree with Gyr.