CAMOUFLAGE

They told me you had gone,
and hiding, wisely, my reaction,
I felt a need to cry.
In an instant life changed
and I was alone.
Faking gaiety I carried on
as an actress in a play.
No one must ever know --
not even you, my phantom love,
so brave I've been
while loving you
with all my being
when you heeded not.

I will wear my smiles
for everyone to see,
and they won't suspect
a heart is weeping,
a soul is mourning
because my love has gone.

Copyright 1978 Ruth Gillis

Published in My Legacy May 1994

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