Happiness! Poem by BASAB CHAUDHURI

Happiness is doing a roaring business - in cities, towns, everywhere,
Happiness sells - buyers form a long queue,
Everyone wants to have a fair share of the cake,
Happiness!
But they don't realize that light exists -
only at the end of the tunnel,
Unless you reach the bottom of unhappiness, you can't get a glimpse of happiness.
As in the city, skyscrapers, malls, air-conditioned halls,
Then you find the shanties, the homeless, bare-bodied children -
Happiness, even there is...
Truth reveals: most prominently against untruth,
Success triumphs: only against distinct failures,
Happiness too, only against the bottom of unhappiness,
But happiness sells, because we refuse
To pass through the dreadful unhappiness.