Empty

This is what I am
I joke
I smile
But inside I am dead

You see me and I smile
I joke around and play
Outwardly I am happy
Inwardly I am dead

I feel like a surgeon
Has opened me up
removed my heart
And replaced it with mud

All I want to do
is curl up in a ball
and then maybe it will come
An end to it all

But I will stay this happy Jo
That you have all come to know
But inside there is nothing
just skin and bones.