How We Smiled

How We Smiled

I watch your mouth

how your lips curl 

away from your teeth

a flash of lightening

never reaching your eyes

although your voice

curiously slow and warm

crawls inside my belly 

like a parasite returning to the host

I am not your home

shining your familiar, empty grin

You are a stranger

and yet I search

beneath the facade  

for the real you 

that remembers

how we smiled 

Angela Minard 2016©

Painting~ "Stranger" by Llm Cheol hee