Poetry / Fake Smiles

I love the way you write how people hide their true side behind a facade placed up to keep people out. I know a lot of people have done so, including myself. Using a facade leads to fake emotions and when love is fake, then the real love is shelved away. It does not make sense, I know, but I wanted to try and get the meaning you might get. I do suggest trying to capitalize your words where it is needed.

Very strong imagery but I couldnt feel the rhythym of the words.

Like I said though some very strong images and I like that in a poem.

Good strong sensations in the poem

Hi there stranger. Here are my thoughts on the piece. First off, I like the idea of love being afraid to come out of the shadows. Nicely done.
The beginning is missing something to me…it seems like you say “smiling faces, staring back at me” and then say you dont see them, only fake smiles.

It’s confusing. Also I think using the word smile over and over is a little repetitive. Something along the lines of “genuine warm smiles, grinning back at me. they don’t exist anymore, fake smiles are all i see” simplifies it a little. Ya know?

In general, the emotion is there, the imagery is there, I just think you could use some more descriptions and up the vocab a little to make it perfect.

nice work!