See-Saw

An attempt to address the helplessness of parents who have and will have different parenting struggles since time immemorial to save their children from slipping into labyrinth of illogical fashion ,demands and at present the ocean of gadgets....

Times change, centuries roll

But parents have only their children's well being as their only goal.

"Why are you standing here?

Oh! Stop staring there,

Don't twitter like this.

Don't roam like that ."

"Ah! "My heart shouted thither,

" Will you please stop this father?"

A momentary silence prevailed

But soon my dad yelled again,

" Mend your ways.

Trim your nails.

Wear a decent attire.

Concentrate on your studies or get ready to fail."

I perspired and wailed," Stop this father."

 "Have you gone mad?"

Shouted my teenager son.

Son who has a novel definition of fun.

Who is a prisoner of a tech cell

The living hell whose inmate is not one but everyone's teenaged young ones.

Whose builders, architects,masons are no one other than our own precious ones .

I opened my eyes ," Was it a dream?"

Observing my child going astray , pacing into a virtual artificial gruesome world l wished to pray l wanted to scream out

All the strictures my once earthly father had passed

But ,my obstinate son did he or would he bother?

I sense, l feel my ethereal father behind the clouds

Boldly pointing out ," See ,how things go round 

What's right for us, for you today

May prove wrong tomorrow".

So, always pay heed to what your elders say

Since that's the ultimately best way.

As life is akin to a see-saw

Forever you can't stable stay.

A see-saw will always sway 

Whatever your perception may say

Right or wrong it will always go

Up and down .

Sitting on the tip of an iceberg

I wish wheel of time to spin back.

And do whatever little bit l can

To get my father pat me on my back

To bestow on me the legacy of infinite patience that only parents can boast to own.

But, now he rests in God's town pointing for sure towards a see-saw which will always sway up and down.