The shadow of happiness...

Measures of life hard done by gloom
Grains of sand hour-glass fill
Stains left by the scorching heat-
As life seemed sacrificed in the temple of doom

God of small things- those temples reside
Rituals and lore- threads of belief
In prayers and offing, our selfish need-
Measures of life in benevolence decide!

Benevolence, the virtue, of the blessed soul
Those tales of yesteryears- bygone
Shares of joys and pains alike
Yellows of life, from the parchments unroll…

Seasons of the sun, those parchments grace-
Pendulous life, the waging wars!
Efforts to steal every inch of ground-
Where the shadows of happiness did impress

The shadows of happiness- color o’ rainbow!
Born of tears, the pains of life-
And far away on the creation canvas
Do light up the horizon in its celestial glow.

Ordinariness of life in the celestial light!
Peeps out to shake the slumber melancholic
As again the distant dreams germinate-
With the vibgyor of life in the distant bright!!