A worthy five-letter Word!

This five-letter word is worthy indeed

with its splendour, spread around

among all our kin and kith

and whoever comes in contact with.

 

Producing a vibrant appeal

even in a collapsed scene;

brings the injured, solace well,

as a liniment put on lesions.

 

Quiet and mild its profile is,

endearing the viewers’ heart

and is it the laughter’s dear daughter,

which is noisy and wild in nature.

 

Possesses it the mesmeric healing

when our hearts and minds are hurt.

Acts it as a calming agent, if

comes it from a genuine mind.

 

Hiding venom in minds, the people

bearing this on their visage,

as if wishing upright things,

await cheating chances keenly.

 

Appears it in different shapes

as a slit small, in clipped lips,

or a curve in the half-split mouth

or like brackets with an outlet.

 

Nothing but the ‘SMILE’ is this;

So, smile so sweet, let us have

and allow it to be a permanent resident

of our valuable countenances.

 

Smile and smile at everyone;

it incurs us outlays nil.

Alas! Covers it, today’s masks,

that we wear at the stage of COVID.