You Didn'T Tell All, Mother
You didn’t tell all, mother!
In front of profusely smoking lamp,
Fighting with stubborn darkness,
In dim light
While brushing up alphabet lessons
You told me
That this would imbue
Brightness in my life someday,
But darkness is still unfurling
Like a flag of its victory
In this nuclear age;
Rupturing silence of dark night
When I used to get
Scared of wolf’s hooting
You always recounted,
‘Taking shelter of darkness,
Out of fear of human being
They would never venture
To come out in light’
Wolves are roaming
In city malls these days
Allays of town are replete
With their modern fashions
And men are confined to
Shrinking space of their home;
Education would entail
A social, economic and cultural change
Though, you hide truth
A better change,
Money would ensure
All the communications
Whereas everything else would
Be rendered mute!
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