Amidst doom and despondency, it’s a time for healing and prayers that this poem, by Parvathy, celebrates exclusively for Different Truths.

Many who saw me,
They asked me, 
How can you keep yourself so happy?
I answered:
I never feign happiness.
And I can't because;
Everyone doesn't need my smile,
When they forget to give theirs' too-
And I smile it out, when all I should.
Because none else would smile 
for me I know, 
Though I have my mother 
who would cry along.
Let me tell you:
Smile it out, 
If you see tomorrow's sunrise.
Smile it out,
If the morning breakfast didn't come well.
Smile it out, 
If you broke a glass tumbler.
Smile it out,
If your boss treats you bad.
Smile it out,
If you had a good
And again tough time with your husband.
Smile it out, 
If your kids score less marks in exams.
And make them too smile-
Giving them newer ways of study, 
So that they too give smiles back 
After each exam and each exam of life.
It's easy to smile, but it's difficult to
Feign a smile. 
So smile it out,
If you had a loss too.
Let's dig in happiness
In penny and pound 
In ups and downs 
In wealth and distress
For, a smile can help you out
Not to feigh anymore in life.

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Parvathy Ramachandran

Parvathy Ramachandran is a writer and an academician. She started her career as a teacher at Al Noor International School, Bahrain, before she joined TKMM College, Nangiyarkulangara as Assistant Professor of English. She has also served Sree Narayana College for Women, Kollam. Parvathy’s fields of interest include poetry, short fiction, Transcultural studies, Gender studies, etc. She has presented papers national and international seminars. She published her debut anthology of poems, Late Night Lantern

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