During these overly serious times, I thought I would share a poem I wrote ten years ago and recited, titled “Laughter, Laughter, Laughter”. Hope you enjoy it and also start your day (at whatever point in time you read it) filled with laughter. This is a recording from 2014 in Pune:
Tonight I just want to laugh to bed,
Tonight I just want to feel the reverberation of my smile,
Tonight I just want to feel the joy of living,
Just for tonight, I want to say hi.
Because tonight, I am joy,
In my belly is joy, in my heart is love,
In my hands are two gratitudes,
One for my God, and one for me.
I laugh because I separated the two.
Just for tonight, I will laugh to bed.
It doesn’t stop, this multitude of laughter,
It comes like a torrent I feel familiar with.
It washes away, everything of me and mine,
This beautiful laughter, it makes me smile.
In my belly is laughter, in my space is laughter,
I only feel this bliss tonight.
You may find it funny, or you may find it strange,
But every time I read, that the questions have gone and the answers are there, My belly it just smiles, it smiles, it smiles.
Please come and share my laughter,
I have loads and loads of it to give away,
I have been hiding it and pretending to be civilised.
And this pretence, makes me laugh and laugh,
Even more than I smile.
I pretend to have manners,
I pretend to talk civilised,
I pretend that I even can speak,
What a wonder am I.
When what I am really,
is just a bundle who is high.
Laughter, laughter, laughter,
please tickle me every night.
Video length: 3 min 23 sec
Dennis Taraporewala 