The smile that changed my heart
The smile that changed my heart It was something about this smile. This brilliant ray of sunshine. This wonderful shaft of brightness. It lighted up my day, it brightened my heart. There was such a humble look behind that smile, that made me feel affectionate. I became enthralled in an instant, as if by magic. I was immediately captivated. How can a smile reveal so much about the soul? So much about the things that were unspoken and the things that the common eye could not see. This sight of mine, how limited. Yet this smile opened the window if not the door to the soul, to the heart. I refused to go past this smile. I wanted to know what it was about it that drew me. That captured my heart and made me feel how I felt. It was so real, so pure. The kind of genuineness that is undeniable. It somehow made me feel safe and secure. The kind of safety I always searched for It showed kindness, the very tenderness behind all that was tampered with by war It was...