Straighten your posture

Let your dimples show

Widen your eyes

And no one will know

I smile as I strut through the doorway.

Bold and sassy. That’s what they want me to be.

So that’s what I will be.

Smile and laugh

Through the blur of the party

And then all will be okay

Just don’t be tardy

If I pretend it never happened, it will go away.

No dead flowers

No hard stone

No shivering cold

Or time sitting alone

Make promises and deals, even if you can’t keep them.

It makes you seem loyal and trustworthy.

I wrote that down somewhere.

It’s more than a list of rules.

It’s me.

It’s who I am.

A smile, a laugh, a promise, a joke

It’s part of me now, more than an oath

It combines them, and me aswell

So I can survive this lifetime of hell