original poem :)

Smiles are just a formality

Smiles are just a formality.

Masks to hide the chaos within,

Conform to society’s reality.

We hide within our own surreality,

no one ever knows.

 Smiles are just a formality.

Commands spoken with finality,

Get a job. Go to school. Do your part.

Conform to society’s reality.

We sink into a sense of normality.

 Becoming just another face, a number.

 Smiles are just a formality.

We walk around with false congeniality ,

 pretending to care, not really there.

 Conform to society’s reality.

 We long to step out, show individuality,

 but are silenced by fear’s shadow.

 Smiles are just a formality.

 Conform to society’s reality.