February 8,  2020

SMILE

She accidentally overheard

someone say, “She never smiles.”

She looked around. She was the

only one they could have meant.

She heard another say, “You’re right.

I’ve never seen her smile…. Never.”

She locked the bathroom door – and

looked in the mirror at her face.

She began to practice, practice, practice

smiles till her face almost hurt, hurt, hurt.

Then one day she overheard someone say,

“She’s got a great smile – doesn’t she?”

Looking in a mirror she said to her smile,

“Hey, they are talking about you. Yes you.”

Then another said, “I wonder whom she

got that smile from, her mom or her dad?”

Once more she looked in the bathroom mirror,

winked and said, “I got it from you, baby.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020