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This is my best story in 
my mother tongue urdu 
which I translated and 
tried my best to turn it 
into a poem in english 

Luqman who was a 
merchant wiseman and 
his son
bought themselves a 
fine donkey once.
The two then set off 
together
walking besides it, 
holding its tether.
Then they came upon a 
group of gossipers
Roadside chatterboxes 
they were
And how they began to 
talk and mock
staring at the two from 
the sidewalk.
They jeered saying how 
silly the two were
to own a donkey and 
not ride it
and walk foolishly beside 
it! 
Hearing that, Luqman 
quickly seated his teen 
son upon the dönkey's 
back
They set off thus, 
Luqman walking besides 
the donkey, his son 
riding it.

Then they came upon 
another group of people 
squatting on the roadside

Watching the trio, the 
onlookers instantly 
began passing comments 
so snide.
They rebuked the son 
for having no respect 
and consideration
for his aged father, for 
letting him walk while he 
rode himself, like a spoilt 
generation'.
Hearing that the son got 
down the donkey and 
asked his father to ride 
and be seated.
Luqman then got on the 
donkey and began riding 
before the argument got 
heated.
Thus they set off once 
more
the son trailing on foot 
behind his riding father.

But soon they came 
upon another group of 
bystanders
who immediately 
stopped minding their 
own businesses
like some nosy witnesses
and began passing 
comments
They said how very cruel 
and unkind
was the father to let his 
lil' son trudge behind
while he himself rode on 
a donkey fine! '
So once again to stop 
their pooh poohing 
Luqman the asked his son
to get on the donkey 
with him as well.
So now they both were 
seated on the donkey's 
back
and they continued their 
journey that way.

But they had hardly 
gone a mile or two
when they came upon 
another set of idle 
ramblers who would
boo.
Immediately they started 
eyeing the trio quite 
critically, 
exclaiming that the two 
were behaving quite 
brutally! 
That with the poor 
animal riding with both 
of their weights upon it
was too a heavy a load 
for it! 
Luqman's son's eyes 
then popped out to hear 
that
and he looked at his 
father, mouth agape.
His father shot him a 
wry look and sigh grin
'Everyone's pleasure son 
you can't win'.

You just cannot please 
each and everybody
So you better heed 
nobody
but God for He is only 
one
and He changes not for 
moon or sun
The one God is far easier 
to please
Fellow humans are too 
many to appease!
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