Secret Smile

Secret Smile

She walks out the door
it’s raining again
slanting downpour
doesn’t slow down her spring

she hugs to herself
what she’s known for a while
she’s not on the shelf
she has her own style

she smiles a secret smile
that only she knows
under her plain face
lies a deep inner glow

she’s running for a train
her footsteps pounding
to the same old refrain
of the life she’s been living

cause she never shares
what causes that spring
she just smiles her secret smile
and does her own thing