If I should greet you with a grin <br />It hardly expresses all that’s within <br />If I should extend an open hand <br />It barely tells you where we stand <br /> <br />The surface expressions we select <br />Are not good mirrors and don’t reflect <br />So much which beneath the surface lies <br />One need scratch below for deeper ties <br /> <br />Yet if we think in hardly meeting eyes <br />We see the truth as known by other guys <br />We do injustice from the start <br />To those who keep things close to heart <br /> <br />Or those who have learned by path of pain <br />To shy from trusting lest be hurt again <br />To know a heart requires patience taking <br />Rare a face reveals a heart that’s breaking<br /><br />Mary Havran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/surface-expressions/
