Reason to Smile

from Some Better Place by Mark Hahn

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It's your strange
Out of place smile
That I've always been looking for

Because
When life crashes down
And all I can make are mistakes

I can't stop feeling, like
I need to keep finding
Happy surprises

And reasons to laugh
And to smile
Because now

I'm feeling down
And don't know
Whether to hold on

Or to let go

When we're all caught up
In this nursery rhyme
Horror show world, it's

Enough to make you laugh
Or scream
But somehow

We've both found someone
In each other
Who knows

Just how bad it can be
And how good
And it gives me

That reason
That I need to smile
When life crashes down

All around me
Like a nightmare
Horror show

Funhouse ride
That's been built
For all the laughs

And the screams
And the kisses
And then the lights go out

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from Some Better Place, released September 2, 2018

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Mark Hahn Tucson, Arizona

Tucson artist and writer, Mark Hahn, grew up in Detroit MI, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and has traveled, lived and worked in many major cities across Europe and the United States. He has now settled in Tucson and spends his time focusing on varied creative projects while exploring the Sonoran Desert and the broken down mining towns that are scattered around the Southern AZ landscape. ... more

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