Happiness

By Nayanjyoti Baruah

Here and there happiness is,

But no one recognizes where it is.

Every day everyone runs after it, but

Almost everyone knows not what it is.

Happiness is found high and low;

But it's not goods to go and purchase from the store.

One great outlook requires for

Seeing, smelling, feeling and finding it.

Farmers smell it in the paddy field,

Rickshaw men find it in the full passenger's seat,

Pregnant women feel it after giving birth to a baby,

When wage labours always get paid in the evening.

Let's surrender ourselves at our work,

And struggle to achieve it, score it.

So, let us steal not others' happiness

Until we deserve it.

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Nayanjyoti Baruah is pursuing M. A. in English Literature from Gauhati University. He has written more than 90 poems both in English and his mother tongue(Assamese). Recently, he has won an online English poetry competition that had been held in Hyderabad, organized by Tayls eMagazine on 15th August. The name of the poem is "My Last Day at J &K". He is 22 years old. His favourite writers are respectively William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Franz Kafka. When someone asks him why he writes poetry and all, he answers, "Simply I've many things to say but let my writing speak first".