I Choose To Smile (Inspiration) Poem by Arun Maji

Today and everyday
I choose to smile.
I choose to smile no matter what.

I choose to embrace
Both Light and shadow
Joy and sorrow.

Ache may agonise my heart
But I would smile.
Sorrow may shadow my soul
But I would smile.
I am free to smile no matter what.

Age may rob my health
Fate may rob my wealth
But who can rob smile of my soul?
Who can rob this dawn and dusk
Sky river and air of this earth?

Things I need to smile
They are already there
Both within me and outside me.
I must wake up to them
And claim them.

And I claim them. I claim them now.
I am born to smile
So I must smile no matter what.

© Arun Maji
Painting: Eugene De Blaas