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You create them You give birth to them You nurture them You raise them All the while seeking to rearrange them For you insist on always owning them Kids are forever Children are our saviour Dynasties become prolonged It is never best to have just one Mirrors of one’s ambition Apple of our critical eye A mini me who is never contrary A vessel to fill with my life plan Someone to control till I die Pride is king The family name is nirvana The façade of respectability must never crumble All and sundry must toe the line For the world must believe all in this household is fine Be better Be all we wish you to be Attain heights we never grasped Never let our ambition lapse Caged and thus unable to be free Longing for a faraway glimpse of liberty Dying to show some level of individuality A life on a road to eventual calamity Secrets and hopes Are encased deeply In a psyche that aches gloomily Insular and depressed They contemplate university They exist from day to day Awaiting a long list of all they need to say The dress sense must be perfect Their manner never abrupt Everything is done to give the family A social step up Grades must be exemplary A career path must show economic sensibility Friends must be vetted minutely Who cares about your sanity Do it all for our vanity You can never grow up We own you for life Fly the nest and we follow We are your bothersome shadow Letting go is hard for us to do When we made you It was not only because we wanted you Our future plans have always revolved around you Smile and never let the world know How dismally we have wrecked you Those that must forever be The centre of another’s world Have a big responsibility They are clones And will always be second best
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