He's Still Here

By day, I am laughter, smiles, bless you’s.Evening, I am where are you?, heart splintered,drowned blue.Night, I am a Joni Mitchell lyric, a forgotten painter,a country station’s croon.Morning, I put on my makeup, the thick smile lines,the rouged joy.They need me this way, unaffected and gladsome,pretending he never left.