Opinion Piece:Deep in me there is a secret just like there is one in you

I may look happy and content but deep in me there is a deep dark secret waiting to be unleashed. Just like the sun at night I wait to come up. I put on my smile because to the world a frown is seen as not the norm. Like me you walk around pretending, your smile is just a symbol of the hole that lies deep within you. This world is not a happy place for me and you. We have to walk around pretending that everything is all right, even though we lift our heads each morning to poverty, illness and children with no homes.

I shout, I rant and I rave but no one hears my cry. You look at my tears but there is not much you can do because you cry at the same pace each night. Like the homeless boy who landed on the streets because his father was a drunk who gave his mother AIDS, beat her to death because he believes she was sleeping around and went to jail leaving this poor boy to fend for himself. I also have that deep ache that he feels every night while he longs for his mother’s warmth.

That pain you feel, yes I feel it too. I drag it with me every day and wait for the day it all goes away. That secret you have yes I have it too. But like me you’re waiting for that day someone closes that hole and brightens all that darkens.