It can be so easy to make someone smile
You don’t have to waste your dear money
Just gift one tiny gesture
A smile coming from yourself
Will be mirrored and lasts longer
Than you would imagine

It does last longer
Than the short satisfaction
When you actually use your money
To buy an exquisite jacket
A delicious sushi meal
A luxurious SUV
A futuristic loggia

Short-lived satisfaction
Like an afternoon blow in the woods
Did it even happen?

But this one honest smile
Straight into your eyes
Hits deeper
Straight into your heart
And it stays there

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Can you hear the heart beat?

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I’ve always got flashes of memory
Thinking back to that smile
Already years ago
One late afternoon
In the back of a coach
One of the last times
I ever used a coach

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Our eyes met
For longer than usual
For even longer than socially appropriate

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The fixation turned into a smile

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It’s so easy to make someone smile
Simply look at each other
For as long as two heart beats

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And the smiling memory will last
Forever.

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        © Dominik Alexander / 2020