A Smile to Hide

The smile to hide her own depression
caused on her own accord,
caused by her own oppression
that she can no longer afford,
she drinks the smile on
a face that droops so low
awaiting a friendlier dawn,
somewhere friendlier to go.
Her partners in her crime
grab onto coattails
hoping they'll rise in a prime
only to see them further fail.
She pulls her friends onto
the rapidly sinking ship,
a blockade her friends can't break through,
onto the inevitably final trip.
There may be a chance
to be saved somehow
but she doesn't give it a second's glance
as she's resigned to her fate now.
She's driving herself down
deep into the ground
as everyone watches her frown
have no inkling to turn around,
but instead this sad saga concludes,
ending on the saddest of terms:
it's all done with the expected news
of another soul's desires causing it to burn.