• Everyone knows what happiness is.

    It's a nice funny feeling one gets

    when something good happens to them,

    Isn't it?

    The girl tries to be happy,

    she honestly does.

    She can laugh and smile,

    and help others do the same.

    But where that feeling should be,

    where her heart is,

    is just an empty, hollow pain,

    that makes her hurt instead.

    Maybe she wasn't meant,

    maybe she wasn't allowed,

    to know the beautiful feeling.

    The warmth of happiness.

    The girl still tries,

    still smiles and laughs.

    Just for the sake of her friends

    family and loved ones.

    When they've all left,

    she stands and wonders..

    Why can't she be like them?

    Why can't she, too,

    know what it's like,

    to know someone cares and be glad,

    to know someone loves her

    and let her heart also smile?

    Maybe she was born without that

    special feeling

    maybe she wasn't meant to have

    that wonderful ache.

    The girl walks alone

    in her own sad world.

    She can smile and laugh,

    while at the same exact time,

    frown and weep

    from that hollow, empty feeling

    deep inside where no one

    can really see.

    But she doesn't know,

    doesn't seem to realize,

    not everyone has her own gift.

    The gift of letting others experience

    that warm, lovely feeling.

    Isn't that enough,

    to make her secretly happy?

    The girl smiles,

    even though it aches so much,

    she's happy that she can help many others

    know that feeling,

    even if she'll never know it herself..