PEDIGREE

 

PEDIGREE

 

Inconsolable twilight years stare,

Build castles reality dream share,

Love people, encounter, cherish,

Wonderful friendship share wish, (1)

 

Extreme effort, diligence, tireless fit,

Determination to be rich in discreet,

Underneath heart, suppressed sadly,

Generations poverty, living madly, (2)

 

Migrated for work, money, shelter,

Family history, sad, tragic chapter,

Inner urges to lift lives famished,

Succeeded to eliminate tarnished, (3)

 

Ample income business success,

Family affluent amused, lot impress,

An only child, educated, established,

Inherit wealth, single astonished, (4)

 

Decided to continue as a single felt,

Accordingly, his life sads melt,

Dissociated from business wealth,

Prefer simple life stayed at length, (5)

 

Rejected friendships, party gossip,

Rejected intimacy, hate courtship,

Shattered twilight years arriving,

Fatherly heart crying yet thriving, (6)

 

Hope indefinite against hope trail,

Generation to be maintained wail,

Sick was wife health cut short to tell,

Another child, possibly death nail, (7)

 

Decades passed, accepted God's will,

Scarcely protest anticipated reveal,

Son will someday marry and plan,

Have children we dreamed for the clan, (viii)

 

Progresses our generation prosper,

Sweet dreams melted, dies creeper,

My child adopt social activity a lot,

Single in life serve needy sick alert, (9)

 

Beyond our advice, his replies bunt,

He assured service to parent taunt,

No requirement for children to firmly,

Devastated today failed sad finally, (10)

 

Look back, parents, grandpa died,

Lack of treatments, medicines, lied,

Hunger was their companion hurt,

When flourished my parents I lost, (11)

 

Love generations their root, remind,

Village, stone built a home, once find,

Wished some grandchild to return,

His village home rebuild, concern, (12)

 

Sink in despite, knew the root ends,

Time describes a new era of dividends,

I, me, mine, modernity, fascination,

Wife, child burden procrastination, (13)

 

I live, I serve, My life is a storybook,

Pedigree is just fictional, fails to hook,

Continue my son with a hypothesis,

Doesn't know grandparent, thesis, (14)

 

No need to have photographs felt,

Yes, they lived, died, and pedigree left. 

A saga of race, root, history, fade,

Ultramodern life single yet tirade. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Pedigree

Themes: The new age generations pitters out

Written: 3rd October, 2023, Cuttack

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