A smile fits in a badly combed backpack
off to race the globe .
The inner Buddha pauses to meditate
on the peaceful shore of the lake .
A smile .
smile in this unknown
that illuminates melancholy .
going off the oblivion ...
Leaving behind the scent of a landscape
you couldn't hold back ...
Intimate alchemy
from the deepths of time .
A few flower petals courted by a bee...
Mystery .
Lips of resilience
defying the lunar plains
and those who canceal suffering ,
contemplative smile
who do not curse ,
accepting the verdict ,
Silently...
Mouth with a frozen gaze,
madona ,
to whom the master gives birth
for eternity ...
And all those rictus of aborted revolts !
'' O lord ,forgive them !
they have lost the smile of happiness ! ''
A smile is a few lines
in a book that tells stories
of gandhi or mandela !
And you say to yourself :
'' This time everything going to change ! ''
But everything goes back
to the way it was before .
Return to the same laughter !
Who will help us find
our way back to beauty
in the ethereal softness
of a watercolor by Marie Laurencin ?
I'll go beyond the lake
to run a world of smiles
that are not just only sketches...
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Comments2
So true there is a regression to the mean. Smiles go back to nonsmiles. A lovely message about true change. Nicely said
Smile is a complex and sometimes deceptive message !
The poem is rich in symbolism and carries many mesmerizing meanings and shades.
It is an invitation to see the smile in all its manifestations: an act of survival, a trace of the past, a broken dream.
Here, the smile is like a fragile thread, a glowing trace in the darkness—sometimes misused, sometimes forgotten, but never completely extinguished.
The essence of the text perfectly summed up !
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