Smile Through the Pain

                When depression starts
                                   to dominate your life,
                it sticks in your heart
                                   like a cold steel knife.
                The more that you struggle
                                     to become, from it, free,
                the greater you feel
                                 the pain and agony.

                Try wearing a smile
                               instead of a frown,
                take off that mask
                             of the crying clown.
                For the crying clown cries
                                in a low, quiet tone,
                and life is too short
                                 to cry alone.

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