Make Me Smile

                     The words within a sentence
                     can be read in many ways.
                     Some have deep-seeded meanings
                     and many feeling they may portray.

                     Friends often become depressed.
                     "Make me smile", they sometimes ask.
                     Then I try to write them a poem
                     that contains that happy mask.

                     Can you picture a little child
                     playing by himself in a park?
                     Laughing and playing without troubles
                     that can haunt him in the dark.

                     You think of how innocent that child is
                     and how wonderful that it might be,
                     if you could become a child once more
                     without any worries, without anxieties.

                     So "Make me smile, oh won't you please?"
                     "Just make me smile this one last time."
                     But it's hard to give that happy mask
                     when it's I who need those happy lines.