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Efflorescence 2025 – Umasree Raghunath
Poem Title: Happiness Matters
Looking out through the window,
I watch the doves conferencing the pane
What would they be talking?
I wondered and felt happy above disdain
Health, I compromised unthoughtfully!
With it, my happiness vanished gleefully
Stress, was my constant companion
Sharing my space, meals and every tension
Pleasing people, was my go-to goal in life
Less did I know, that I can please all like a wife
Targets, Milestones, is what I thought matter
Pleasures of life took its backseat to batter
Every invite honoured, every event attended
I felt like the Guest of Honour with smile intended
Then, the hospital bed invited me with glory
I embraced the needles and medicines in fury
Tears rolled down, when I no longer mattered
To everything I thought I am indispensable!
In no time, people forgot I exist, except family
And few best friends who still adore me in ally
A silent lesson, creeped up in life
That nothing but your inner peace and happiness
Is all that matters, for you and your own
No matter, what position, title or money you hold
Don’t rush to do hundred things, but few
That makes you happy and lets you be healthy
Be like those doves conferencing on the window
Instead of being your own fake shadow
Be a person, who can smile with happiness
Spread peace, spread joy and live life!
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