The year’s favorite time,

When happiness seems to shine…

Shorter are the days, lengthier the nights,

For celebrations to prolong, along, carols and rhymes…

Lightened up are the streets, buildings and shrines,

For merriness mixes with blood, running to and fro the spines…

Along the freezing ice from the sky,

Adding the warmth, lifting the spirits even a notch high…

Besides food for the thought, the delicacies delighted,

Not just satisfying the body, but even to soul to get enlighted…

All the smile spreading gifts, adding preaching to teach,

Festival spirits to spread to each and everyone’s reach…

Not just marking of a beginning,

But celebrating the successful ending…

Taking experience from the learning’s of past,

Leading optimistic goals for the future’s vast…