I can hear the birds chirping but where is the sound of joy?
People all around wear their widest smiles but where is my happiness?
How can I stretch my lips to feign a smile when it is my mind that is stiff?
How can I be in a crowd, intermixing shadows, but feel so alone?
Why from all the mobile calls I only get busy tones
when all I need is someone to wrap their arms around me,
and shelter me from this loneliness?
