TO MY ERRING AND STRAYING SON

TO MY ERRING AND STRAYING SON

O my dear, avid and studious son

My blessings are ever with you to profoundly learn

To keep the unending process of learning on and on

Until the Mighty Time does your life’s last page turn!

O my dear, perseverant and perspiring son

My goodwills are ever with you to enormously earn

Boundless wealth, health and the lasting renown

To be adorned with an unfading and untarnished crown!

O my dear, diligent and devout son

My best wishes are ever for you to blow scruple’s horn

When your visions are blurred by perversion haze

When you mistake purgatory as the heavenly praise!

O my dear, conscientious and obliged son

Let not your parents be removed by your new possession

Let not your teachers be replaced by your feat-pronouns

Let not your unforgettable past be ever oblivious an ounce

Let not your ingratitude, to morally erodde you, upon you pounce

Or else, all your glittering “ups” will be construed as bleak “downs”!

Alas! None can help you when your Inner Voice repents and moans!

©Shankar D Mishra 12.06.2017

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