Widows Quest » 1079 http://www.blisstree.com/widowsquest Redefine Yourself and Rediscover Life after a Loss Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:07:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Behind the Smile…. http://www.blisstree.com/widowsquest/behind-the-smile/ http://www.blisstree.com/widowsquest/behind-the-smile/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:17:57 +0000 Anna Farmery http://www.widowsquest.com/behind-the-smile/ Post from: Widows Quest

]]> I try each day to smile, I know that the world lives on and that they have troubles of their own. So I try and listen to people, I try and be there for them, often to the detriment of myself…it made me write this

The Grieving Smile

“How are you today?” Oh fine, I say and the smile appears,

The smile that reassures those people that care about me,

That I am coping – despite the grief.

Those lips that used to touch his,

Now curl upwards to to display the grieving smile

A smile that hides the pain, hides the desire to be alone

Alone with the memories that I crave to be still alive.

Yet, the more I smile the grieving smile

The more I even start to believe myself.

The grieving smile is now reassuring even me, that I am coping

That smile is now giving me the strength

To know that one day that smile will not be forced

And instead, express the love I feel for life, once again.

That is the power of the grieving smile.

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