Ode to the Picture on the wall

Amidst the thronging crowd you have your smile,
your plastic smile,
An everyday make up you wear gracefully,
telling all is well,
 In the very WELL you are SINKING,
Make up done, Jewelries clinging,
Clinging, clanging as you sway back and forth,
Well clothed and beautiful for all to see
 day in, day out,
A perfect pictured life is your life,
A perfect story tale of fairy tales,
And fairy drapes nicely piled,
All things nice and Beautiful,
All beautiful nice and rotten,


Then... 
 A closer look at the big picture...
 of your life is  rotten flesh,
The carcass of your real being,
The emptiness of your life,
The falseness of your identity,
The anguish of your pain,
 All nice and beautiful, All ugly and bleak,
A check up too late, a check-up too soon!
A turn around left too late!

(c)  Funmi Adeyemo, January 2017