LAUGHTER

by: Maningning Miclat

..an ironic poem..

A poem for those who are bitter and in painful experience yet try to hide their true feelings. A story of a girl being left behind by his lover and she tries everything just to make him stay. She used laughter to cover up the pain she is feeling.

Boys don't know how to say goodbye. The guy in this poem begged her not to make memories for this will not make it easier for the two of them when they go apart.

She wants every reader to relate with her. She wants them to know and feel what she is feeling. And she thinks that through poems, she can deliver what she wants everyone to feel.

At first, she is very happy having him beside her. She gets her strength from the guy. But it is so true that nothing really last forever. Today he is madly in love with you yet tomorrow, you don't own him anymore.

The girl maybe has problem, and one way she could surpass it, is to get strength from the guy for she knew that having him will ease all the pain.

The girl cannot get his attention. She cannot use laughter anymore to get him back.

The angry boy left her. It shows that he doesn't love her anymore and that the girl cannot do anything about it.

The boy never understand her. He never understand what she is feeling. He never knew what keeps her alive and strong.

Boys are so insensitive! They never know what you feel unless you tell them so. This poem wants to tell everyone that laughter does not only show happiness for it could also mean pain and tears.

Laugter can be a mask that hides someone from what she/he is feeling.