Hi smiling grass,

I see you smiling always

whether you look up at the setting sun

or are drenched by rain

the day goes by so fast

it seems as if just a moment

between sunrise

and sunset

are you the same blade

who was there when we just came here?

or did that unthinking moron

mow you down for that so called landscape?

I know not the difference

coz you're always smiling

and gently dancing in the breeze

even if it is a gust.

my mood instantly lightens up

when i see you dancing and smiling

and I also wonder at how tiny

yet how great you are

I try to be more like you

to smile no matter what

but in my small world

things are not that simple

something comes up to bother me

unfinished errands

or someone who quite willingly

would like to upset me

and pondering, I look out at you

and then it dawns on me

that nothing else matters

that I am here today and alive

sane and safe under the wide wide sky

and on the reassuring ground

in that both of us are similar

but the difference is our outlook

hence dear grass,

I have made up my mind

to be like you, with a smile like yours

that brightens the wide blue sky.