A smile by chance

The clock is ticking in a room with no windows.
We exchange currency, we exchange breaths,
But we forget to exchange the light.
Listen to the silence between the heartbeats.


Give me a smile by chance,
I place no faith in the words they say.
In our world of heavy glance,
The rumors sweep the truth away.


Give me a smile by chance,
For measured phrases have grown so cold.
In our world of sorrow’s dance,
Without the light your eyes could hold.


Give me a smile by chance,
I place no faith in the words they say.
In our world of heavy glance,
The rumors sweep the truth away.


Give me a smile by chance,
For measured phrases have grown so cold.
In our world of sorrow’s dance,
Without the light your eyes could hold.


The cities rise like jagged teeth,
Biting at a hollow sky.
There is a desert underneath,
Where all our quiet secrets lie.

We trade our souls for hollow gold,
And walk the paths of grey concrete,
But stories that the wind has told
Are echoing beneath our feet.


The sky is bruised, the sun is thin,
We hide behind a mask of stone.
The rumors crawl beneath the skin,
Until we’re crowded, yet alone.
I do not need your grand design,
Or promises that break like glass.
Just give me one reflective sign,
And let the bitter winter pass.

Give me a smile by chance,
Beyond the logic and the greeds.
In this world of dark romance,
A silent look is all one needs.
The measure of a life is small,
If every word is pre-arranged.
Break the mirror, climb the wall,
Before the seasons are estranged.


I am tired of the noise.
The "they said," the "we heard," the "it is known."
It is all ghosts.
Just look at me.
No script. No rehearsal.
Just the radiance.
Give it to me... by chance.

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