Just Smile

• Hadi Afraz, Grade 4, Eastwood Public School -
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'Unleashed 2022' competition

Sitting in our homes, we moan,
while another sleeps on stone.
As we are warm, reading a book,
another has no food to cook.
And as we sleep in our cosy beds,
someone hasn't a roof over their head.
Even a man whose house is a rock,
is luckier than one who cannot walk.
We often sit, ponder and complain,
without knowing someone else's pain;
So smile when it's warm, smile when it's cold,
smile, even in the rain.