Friday, April 15, 2011

Smile

You ask me
To smile
Come what may.

And I realize
That my happiness too
Should be as contrived
As you would like.

And then
I tell myself again
To grow up.

For the child in me
Fails to understand
When I should smile.

10 comments:

Vrinda said...

I love that last line! Sounds so familiar, poetess.

Tapasya said...

@Vrinda: Thanks :)

Tapasya said...

@Vrinda: Why don't you turn on the comments on your blog? :)

Divesh said...

Giving up childhood is too much of a price to pay for something as meager as the knowledge of when one should smile..

Tapasya said...

@Divesh:
Agree.

Vrinda said...

Tapasya, did you take down "In place"? It was crisp and beautiful.

Tapasya said...

I did-- thought it was a bit too depressing. Back up.

Vrinda said...

Merci beaucoup!

Tapasya said...

De rien :P

kayal said...

simplest of things in world are the end product of most complex processes...
true...