frowns in despair…

Misery wears an outward smile

that arises in pretence

while inwardly the soul

frowns in despair…

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[Huw]

I wrote this as a reaction to a young woman that I exchanged a passing greeting with a couple of days ago. She returned my greeting with a smile and a "fine thank you" in answer to my enquiry as to her well-being. I knew that the smile and the answer were a pretence and that she was suffering from severe inner turmoil.