I Smile When…

I smile when a tree adorns
with new leaves and sprouts
forgetting the old agony…

I smile when I notice a bud
developing into a flower
with lots of hopes and expectations…

I smile when an amorous bumblebee
sings love songs to a beautiful flower
and the flower starts swinging
like a ballerina in ecstasy in the air…

I smile when I spot a butterfly
sucking juice of a feeding flower
like an infant…

I smile when I glimpse a bird
chirping something at me
or at the fellow birds in its language
and I keep trying to decode…

I smile when my body gets wet
with the first showers
and I hold my nostrils shut
with the petrichor…

I smile when I read a book
that diagnoses one more disease
of my ignorance…

I smile when my lips get burnt
with a hot cup of tea
while remembering my beloved…

I smile when an orphaned child
gets a home and leads a normal life
like any other child of his age...

I smile when a child comes up
with innocent queries
that I had also asked as a child…

I smile when I see a person
smiling at me or anybody
with or without any reason…

I smile when I don’t see a person

smiling at anybody for any reason
and he too gets infected with smiles…

I find hundreds of reasons to smile
even no reason to smile
also becomes a reason to smile…

Every little smile in this world
touches my heart
and somebody’s heart too…

Let me be a reason for your smile 
you be the reason for me to smile 
and each one of us be a reason
for someone else to smile back…

Have SMILING days, weeks, months and years ahead!😊😊😊

–Kaushal Kishore

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