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    The poem explores feelings of confusion, loneliness, and contradiction experienced by the author. While on the outside they display smiles, inside they feel displaced, sad, and conflicted in their feelings of love and hate. Like the author, everyone hides their true feelings behind their smiles, and the person the poem is addressed to is asked to admit that they too hide behind their smile, concealing their inner contradictions.

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    The poem explores feelings of confusion, loneliness, and contradiction experienced by the author. While on the outside they display smiles, inside they feel displaced, sad, and conflicted in their feelings of love and hate. Like the author, everyone hides their true feelings behind their smiles, and the person the poem is addressed to is asked to admit that they too hide behind their smile, concealing their inner contradictions.

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    Hiding Behind Smiles

    Uploaded by

    Elizabeth Moors
    The poem explores feelings of confusion, loneliness, and contradiction experienced by the author. While on the outside they display smiles, inside they feel displaced, sad, and conflicted in their feelings of love and hate. Like the author, everyone hides their true feelings behind their smiles, and the person the poem is addressed to is asked to admit that they too hide behind their smile, concealing their inner contradictions.

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    Hiding Behind Smiles

    By: Deborah Moors

    Confused, displaced, and a white dot on a black background,


    All my feelings contradict each other.
    Love and hate,
    Poured into my life,
    Sad and glad
    Just to be here.
    Lonely and surrounded
    By everyone who cares.
    But you’re nowhere near.
    I guess I guessed wrong
    Deciding whether or not to be your friend,
    Decision poorly decided
    I feel like a fool,
    Being myself around you
    Did it make your feelings…
    Contradict?
    Knowing I loved you,
    Did I know that you loved me, too?
    There’s no telling,
    When you’re a contradiction yourself?
    You display a smile,
    But behind it,
    You’re sad, and lonely,
    Depressed, mischievous, and clever,
    As am I,
    Everyone hides behind their smiles.
    No matter for how long,
    Or for what purpose,
    I hide, and I admit it
    So do you, won’t you admit too?

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