Smiles That Hurt {Italian Sonnet.}

-Smiles That Hurt.-

There's a girl in the mirror, smiling back at me!
Hiding the tears I know she has in her eyes,
Telling stories of lullabies and good-byes.
And the closer I look, the more I can see;
The innocent little girl she used to be.
And her fake smiles are all little white lies,
Because I know when she is alone, she cries,
Just praying for the day when she'll be free.

Sometimes - - I will wonder who she really is - -
And other times I think I already know.
As she stands there and stares at me, face inert.
Wondering, if anyone knows she exists.
With eyes bloodshot red, and her face of snow;
She whispers back at me, that these smiles hurt.

© Jenna Elphick
September 9, 2006

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Italian Sonnet: Composed of an octave (rhyming abbaabba) and a sestet (rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd) or, in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet. Usually, there are 10 syllables per line, however, Italian Sonnets can also have 11 syllables per line.

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