Life - Fickle

One very good online friend of mine, named Harshal, is a great Shayar. Reading one line of his infuses a torrent of emotions in you...That was precisely what happened here..I read his shayari and it was as if the words flowed out...
PS: Read his Shayaris at http://btoya.blogspot.com

A smile casts light on the darkest crevice
Yet you never know what sorrows
are masked by the same smile.

People who live in the present, callous, callow,
unworried of the future, you never know
what traumas they have endured in the past.

The beggar begs for a drop of mercy
For a morsel of love, for a trifle of caring
But you never know what he was in an earlier life.

She gives a look, meaningless for some
For me, it says a million words
Who else knows what it says?

A stray comment is cast, apparently casual
But who knows what hidden meaning
lies behind it?

People argue one day, become friends the next
who knows how much vice
They still hold for each other?

The warrior rises to guard the gates
Titanic, monolithic, God personified.
But who knows whether he will rise tomorrow to fight?

Unpredictable, fickle, mercurial, volatile
That is life.
Hidden, shrouded, obscured, hazy
That is life.