A challenge

I wrote a couple of lines on facebook the other day and my friend Liz Bowsher (we were school friends and used to play French horns together) challenged me to write the poem so for Liz here it is.

I Scream in Silence

I scream in silence

I cry in the dark

but when day breaks I paint a smile on my face with lipstick,

so you never know what is going on in this crazy head of mine.

Yes I'll laugh.

I'll be what you want me to be

until the darkness falls,

and then I'll scream in silence

I'll cry in the dark

until the day breaks when yet again

I'll paint a smile on my face with lipstick,

leaving you, none the wiser.