Fake Smile.

as the days went on and on

her smile turned faker and faker;

like the rope of faux pearls around her neck,

threatening to strangle and break her.

for those beads felt like a noose

strangling her and weighing her down;

her thoughts swam around her head

and in the hopelessness she drowned.

as the sea of darkness consumed her,

she frantically searched around;

as she waited for a beacon of light to save her,

she slowly disappeared without a sound.