OH! PARENTS’ LOVE
Parents, like the rare
gardeners, do sow human
seeds
With so sweet dreams on their
beds of life gardens!
Do warm them with love heat,
and water with care rains
Until they do sprout and
evolve into special breeds!
Parents, like the caring
gardeners, tend kids-saplings
With tender compassion,
affection and timely service,
Unique devotion, dedication
and invaluable sacrifice
Until making them as valuable
as diamond Rings!
Yes, no pebbles unturned they
do ever leave
Until their promising plants
grow impressively to live
Even longer than the gigantic,
enduring banyan trees,
All that they do merely
drawing sopping hardship fees!
Alas! Little do they ever
dream in their wildest nightmares
They will be, one day,
deprived of shades, let alone fruit cares!
They will be abandoned like
abominable snake sloughs,
Oh! they will be blown out
like filthy mucus and coughs!
Ah! They are returned their
vital water in the form of hot tears
They are reciprocated with
biting sneers and piercing jeers!
They are no longer in the
scheme of things like dry tree barks
Alas! They are found begging
for Mercy in stations and parks!
My greatness! Still they
curse not their own ingrate bloods
Still they devoutly pray for
them, being whirled in pain floods,
Hence, their matchless Love
is equal to that of god and goddess
Oh! Who, even from their
graves, still love their kids, and bless!
N.B: This poem is inspired by
the title song of a Hindi movie, Baghban.
* evolve – grow/ develop
* breeds – types of children
* impressively – remarkably/ memorably
* Yes, they do ever leave
* gigantic – huge/ very big in size
* enduring – lasting/ durable
* sopping – soaked/ drenched
* nightmares
* deprived of – taking away one’s rights
unlawfully or immorally
* abandoned – forsaken/left
* abominable – hateful
*sloughs – skins
* filthy – dirty
* mucus – a viscid secretion of the
mucous membranes [occurs in running noses]
* reciprocated – shared/returned
something taken previously
* sneers – scorns/mocks
*piercing – sharp/painful
* jeers – taunts
* barks
* ingrate – ungrateful
* devoutly – sincerely/ earnestly
* whirled – twirled/spun as if in the
currents of water
©Shankar D Mishra 08.06.2017
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