• last year
Grinning like I've lost my mind,
I trace these streets of faded time.
If nature's hand should strike unkind,
and hardships never fall behind.

Then let me be the fool they see,
a laughing soul in misery.
The one who smiles through all the pain,
dancing lightly in the rain\n\nD.S Kenny

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/smiling-idiot/
Transcript
00:00Grinning like I've lost my mind.
00:02I trace these streets of faded time.
00:05If nature's hand should strike unkind.
00:08And hardships never fall behind.
00:11Then let me be the fool they see.
00:13A laughing soul and misery.
00:15The one who smiles through all the pain.
00:18Dancing lightly in the rain.