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.
