Don’t send an invitation

To your own pity party

There are enough people

Willing to dance

In the light

Of your sadness…

Don’t dress yourself

In garment of loss

There’s got to be more

Than hidden emotions &

Longing for understanding in life…

Are the hopeless not scared?

The often dark adolescence, an infinity?

So I tell these people at party

Imperfection is not broken,

With every fragment

I can afford to smile…

~ Chintan Lalwani