Challenge
Challenge of the Week CVII
Happiness. The ever-elusive state in which we all strive to linger. Write about the pursuit or experience of happiness. Perhaps it's an illusion. Perhaps it's a character who finds happiness in an unlikely place. Perhaps it'll be the simplest thing you'll ever write, or perhaps the most difficult. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Still I Smile
The blocks in my neighborhood were always the longest ones I’ve ever walked.
The jobs I’ve worked have always had the longest hours and the shortest breaks.
The money in my pocket was never enough for what I truly desired, only for what was truly needed.
But I still smile..
I crack grimaces on the days that take the most tolls on my spirit.
I force grins to catch the tears on the days that are the most weary.
And on the most troublesome days,
I stretch my lips as far as I can until my teeth bare their pearls of prosperity.
I imagine myself a thief,
Steal a smile here or there
Still I smile here or there..
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