Diwali

Maa...! What is Diwali 

What is tonight? 

Why every house, 

Is illuminating with light? 

Why people are exchanging, 

Smiles with their loved ones? 

Why we are in the dark, 

Please...! Tell me once. 

Why don't you feed me, 

With halwa poori and sweets? 

Why we are not bursting crackers, 

And sitting alone in the street? 

That mother, who begs from door to door, 

Pregnant with the sorrow in deep. 

Sometimes, with an empty stomach, 

Puts her baby to sleep. 

I know, this time too, 

Her Diwali will pass in despair. 

This time too, she will caress her child, 

Pulling the lullaby out of air. 

But this time; I have decided, 

I will not let his Diwali go in vain. 

He will also celebrate it, 

And Smile will touch his face once again. 

I only request you, 

there are millions of children like him. 

Please...! Celebrate this Diwali, 

Without being selfish. 

Come on! Light a lamp of love, 

Burn the chain of sadness. 

Shoot a rocket of prosperity, 

And fire a flowerpot of happiness.