Smile of a Skeleton

Dr. Sudhansu Dash

I know not hypocrisy

Clinging to the virgin lips in my own style

With purpose

Neither to make my visitor happy nor unhappy

But a warm alertness of every uncertain moment

Standing with a motionless silence at your threshold

No passion, no dispassion can deceive me

I am just the signature of an unhunted grace of eternity

All the deception of your whole life

Melts into me unconditionally without a question

You may understand me, understand me not also

But, you can never misunderstand me

Because I cannot communicate a word

It is your helplessness before my dead silence

I am eternal to myself with an unquestionable conviction

The tired spring takes its final resort in me

Behinding all its name and fame

My signature is the witness on your soil

Defusing all your smile and cries.

See me once close

But not so as the muted distance

Lest you will be dissolved in me

Not to find yourself alone for a while

I know the art of living alone with myself in my aloneness

My smile does not ring to the sound of bobbles

I smile

But it never reaches the lips

You cannot distort it

You cannot disturb it with your words

I have come here with a hope

To live only all helpless times.