When You Smile

I see you smiling, morn and night

In blooming hibiscus , jasmine white,

What a miracle, mesmerizing charm!

Your beauty enchanting ,love so warm!

Like microphones fitted on branches

Look there a singing morning bird perches

There are no locks ,gardens for them are open

None are checked if they are bathed or sloven,

Grasses freely grow ,their farmers are unknown.

From brown Earth ,lavishly green they are strewn

On brown stumps grow blooms pastel lacy

Winged creatures only know of hidden nectar juicy ⁸

Each creation is of varied multiple color

Swaying heads in breeze with fragrant ferver

Bewildered are eyes on magic that dwells in each corner!

One remains dwarf, other grows sturdy and tall

Some bloom single others twisted and whorled

Nuking dark corner group of fire flies twinkle!

Harvest comes for chosen grains a few

Nature asks not favour for its services in lieu!

His treasures are open to one all born here

Ambition walks dressed as traders swear!

“This is mine, rest I will soon conquer!”

Continously such thoughts spur endless whine

They exist for all but Man accepts not

An eternal truth -“nothing he has brought !

Yet falsity controls his innumerable deeds

Habitually he accumulates without any need!

Shama Sinha

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