Bring back my smile!

Smiles are everywhere, even near the faces where the tears reside temporarily. Like the Sun, a smile is an object of permanence, which is sometimes eclipsed by the opaqueness of misery and despair. I see people greeting each other with a smile, it looks so normal, despite being farcical. For the simple fact that we greet each other with a smile in anticipation of a smile back to us. It is like a trade of emotions. Does it make you happy? It doesn’t make me happy though, not more than for a tiny microsecond.Sometimes the eyes search for a smile which they hope would not have changed over the passing time. Eyes that look you in the same way in which they always did. You hope that in this world of ‘consistent change’, this face should not change, not even in physical terms. A moment of ecstasy runs through your nerves right from the navel to the tip of your chin and releases into the air through your hair. This temporary implant of emotions joins the permanent stream when you imagine and pause the time at relive that exact moment when you saw that smile for the last time.But the law of nature doesn’t work according to the comforts of anyone. It works under the supervision of time. An immemorial law of time is that it expects patience from its followers. You just cannot circumvent this law. We’ve been told by our ancestors that for a worthy moment of joy, an infinite amount of cost in terms of time and efforts has to be sacrificed. This is why, we all wait, we wait for that one right time when the ray of sunshine would calibrate the time in our favour. I wait too, for that moment has to be mine someday. I wait, for that little moment of infinite delight is beyond any amount of pain that I suffer today. I wait for the shaping of clocks of time in my favour someday. That day, I would take my hand out to touch the smile that I saw, breathed and lost years ago.