Margeret Bailey Poet Light Verse

European Love

In most cultures families are timid to show their affections 
to their children, perhaps, if they were more adoring and affectionate
their children would not succumb to drug ailments,
suicide and bad company,

Some parents think over emoting makes the children too comfy,
Yet, the Europeans feel no shame to call their spawns
endearing names, smothering them with love from birth,
going beyond male-female barriers and showing their adoration
with whimsical kisses to make their children feel cherished,

While, around the rest of the globe,
many stifle their public displays of caring,
and their families wither away from lack
of attention, like flowers they disintegrate 
right before their beloveds' eyes,
because they feel too awkward
to show the emotions they have been suppressing,
The feelings go unexpressed, and they succumb to lives
that are depressing.

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