Silent Smiles

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Silent Smiles

We speak the language of silent smiles.

Tongues tucked away behind teeth,

Lips stretched to the far corners of our faces,

We suppress words altogether,

Refusing to allow even a single thought escape from the confines of our minds.

Like such,

We converse through expressions of glistening eyes.

Like invisible laser beams,

Your icy baby blues

meet my glossy emerald greens

in a battle to take place in crowded rooms or empty hallways

Acknowledging the things we strive to deny

Those feelings,

Those actions,

What the other may or may not know

What we did our very best to hide

Because opening mouths

leads to opening doors

leads to opening more

of me

of you

of sides we never sold

of stories we never told

of love we never shared

of deeds we never dared

of dreams we never dreamed

of things we never seemed

to be certain of.

The ice begins to melt off the basketball court

And the scent of the air is slowly becoming more consistent

With that of the day we spent together

Forming the bond that shall ultimately suffocate us both

As we conceal our histories

behind the silent smiles that we’ve begun to exchange.