Smile. A poem in response to being told "you'd be pretty if you smiled".

A poem I wrote after buying flowers on the way to visit a friend who had just lost their father. Whilst in the store, a man said to me "cheer up, it might not happen. You could be pretty if you smiled." It's not the first time many of us will have heard those phrases. There seems to be an assumption that our appearance should look a certain way to please others. This poem says that it absolutely should not. There is more to us than our face.
From the book What the Wild Replied www.amazon.com...
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