A little girl,
with a smiling face
and tattered clothes
on her.
Bare-footed,
she walks
slowly
on the carpeted road.
Watching around
luxury vehicles
loaded with
the aristocracy,
Lost in their own world –
the world of selfishness,
none of them bothers
to understand her
The pain of the girl
behind her smile
the excruciating
smile!
Shehla Khan Kulachi is an academic based in Faisalabad, Pakistan. She writes poems in English, Punjabi and Urdu languages
