Tradition

Youngsters leaving their parents to old age homes to feel themselves free

To be independent,
Is so easy
For the hands shining with wedding bangles
Or for the legs riding on new motorbikes
Just as for an infant
To take birth
When the liquid of mother s foetus dries
May it be a normal
Or Ceasarian birth
Leaving asides all the pains
For previous generations
Enjoy aloneness
O faces full of wrinkles
and cataract dull eyes
At old age homes
Making a mirage around themselves
we are justifying Traditions
Till the time next generation would
Justify this tradition again

Reviews

[Avinash]

Hardeep, there is another side to this story. Children are reflection of their parents just in the different time.
Most of the parents grow their children into achiever, who acquire job, cars and house and when the parents are no longer of use they put them into an old age home.
I have one question to these parents. Did they ever try to grow their children into good, kind heart compassionate human beings?....Answer is No. So you sow, so you reap.

[hardeep sabharwal]

Very true avinash, but there is a contradiction in your quote, you said children are the reflection of their parents, so if we want to change a wrong practice we have to change ourselves, only present generation can do this as past generation had lost their time and future generation s time have to arrive,
we cant kept on blaming previous generations if we want to set a new trend, if we want to see our humane reflection in next generation we have to change our attitude first otherwise we will see previous generation s reflection in future generation

[Avinash]

I completely agree if we want a better old age, we must give love and good ethics to our children and also care for our parents because they follow what they see.

[hardeep sabharwal]

Thanks a lot Avinash for support and everything :)

[Mayank]

Nice work, there is deep feel which make us question 'why?'

[hardeep sabharwal]

Thanks a lot mayank

[Rene Salinas]

The passing on of the batton so to speak. Not just that Hardeep I can only imagine as I haven't visited that in India tradition are more of an influence than over her where just about anything goes. Agin my relationship with old traditions expressed in the wisdom of tales from example the mahabharata is great! But who on earth pays any attention to that? So much so , that I reckon is part of our journey as Individuals to arrive at understanding wihout the help of traditions.

Hardeep never one to point out little technicalities as they can change anytime time but seeein tha the English language is incredibility rich! Until is formal which is in the context of your writing Till is coloquial. Mother's that seemed to be a site thingy thing. Aloness funny to me Isolation? If you also wanted to follow formality then at the beggining of each line there should follow a capital letter.

That's just me though as I always say if it makes you happy it can't be that bad...

Thankyou

[hardeep sabharwal]

Thanks Rene for everything, I m impressed that u have quite good knowledge about indian tradition and of books like Mahabharta,
I am also thankful to you that u have mentioned some grammatical errors,
thanks for stopping by

[George Peck]

very well done thanks for letting me read.

[hardeep sabharwal]

Thanks George a lot