Because I am Happy

Dr.Sudhansu Dash

Because I look happy

With all my gray smiles of an old eye

Smiling under the winter snow.

They think

They have done me no injury.

The sun shine may not cheer it

I cannot help itself in its decay in an altered form

To be a favorite worse truth.

This is neither a choice nor a courage.

The sharp nail scratches the map of my flesh

Leaving the scars needed to be read

The earth drinks the heart that I hide

The shame beneath the veil

The cross road where fate determines the path

You do not understand

All the reasons are lost for a life to live

The day you said me a good bye.

Well it is dead that I am

But keep up a pretence

Because all that I find

Are those who feel now

I have so much to give

I mostly reveal myself

Many times softened by gentleness as now

To cast a shadow over a cheerful newness.