Ever since she was a baby <br />Never ever she was happy <br /> Looking deep into her eyes <br />Heart wails and melts like ice <br /> <br />At a tender age losing her parents <br />Brought up by relatives in turns and churns <br />Hardly she smiled rarely she spoke <br />Under a dim light when everyone slept <br />She kept awake to do her studies <br /> <br />Toiling in the day doing all the chores <br />Comforted by none but confronted by all <br />Boiling with fever at times with no one to bother <br />Braving all the odds she sailed towards her future <br /> <br />Efforts of her paid dividends with a rank of state first <br />Offers came in the form of donors for her further studies <br />Taken aback all her relatives on seeing luck of golden girl <br />Shameless love pours around to share the success of smiling girl<br /><br />Somanathan Iyer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-smile-at-last/
