Once
on a blue moon night
With
those prophetic stars gazing from the silent skies
While
she was cuddling by my side
Twinkling
her bright gray eyes like my morning sunrise
I held
her little Angelic hands
And
questioned my sweet little soul
"Muskan,
why do you always Smile?"
Her graceful
eyes pondered for a while
She
tweaked her rosy nose with another naughty smile
And
with her delicate eyebrows raised for a while
She
tiptoed deep into my eyes
And
through those tiny few teeth sparkling from her smile
She
whispered softly with delight,
"Pappa,
it's sho shimple why I shmile
It's
all this Heavenly Love which makes me smile
The
humble Earth where hope and innocence survives,
With
God's Blessings where the Sun of Justice will always rise
The
silent blue skies where clouds of love do their humble sacrifice
To shower
the flowers below with raindrops of surprise
Faith
in my Country for which I'm never shy
Love
of your soul, which always waits for me down the aisle
My true
love for you, which I don't have to disguise
Purity
of my heart, which I don't need to quantify
My innocent
little friends, whose conscience I don't have to spy
So when
there's nothing that I can despise
No mean,
no bad thoughts to devise
No enemies,
no foes to criticize
No hatred,
no grudge to satisfy
No sins,
no quarrels to justify
No stubbornness,
no ego to publicize
No false
dreams, no characters to scrutinize
No tensions,
no problems to simplify
Then
why should I not smile, with your everlasting love on my side?"
It's
just this child's vision of the world which makes me Smile.
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