My Nation

His army-recruitment-day, Had become his predicament As his loving wife was pregnant… A dilemma shadowed upon his way Yet, within him dawned a silver-ray Hence, ahead, for his nation, he went. Later he said to his only son Whose wife too was expectant To make the right judgment… For, a life lived for one’s nation Is the greatest ever under the Sun As it brim-fills one’s contentment. These two army-men are but none Other than my father and me, his son.