Two poor girls smiling at last...

We were on a long walk back home when we found two very young, pale and poor looking girls sitting down with their father on a foot-path, wanting to sell some inexpensive hair clips. As my wife and my sister-in-law were looking at those hair clips, I looked at those two children gazing intently at them with an expression of weariness but with a flashing ray of hope in their eyes. When we decided against buying them, their eyes twitched for the first time suggesting that the flashing ray of hope is shattered and unlit again by the darkness of poverty in their lives. It was the expression suggesting that they can never be relieved from the vicious chains of nothingness.
We were awakened by the expressions in those eyes and we thought of buying atleast something to make those eyes look happy. When we offered them the price money along with a bit more, they smiled for the first time with an immeasurable feeling of joy.