Republic Day Queries

Will children all

Be well nourished

To make them strong

For their fights ahead?

Will children all

Learn at schools

All that is needed

For an honest living?.

Will grandchild mine

Have a fearless flight

Spreading her charm

To a future bright?

Will grandson mine

Face tempts of times

And grow to be a man

Reliant and helpful to all?

Will the cities’ spread

And vanishing villages

Spell a mournful doom

To sparrows ever spry?

Will  coolness of woods,

Fragrance of flowers,

And murmuring streams

Giving pleasure to the mind

And health to the body

In times gone by

Be deprived for next of gen?

Questions all bothersome,

And worrying to the mind.

Diffident, one must not be,

And faith one must have

In indomitable spirit of man.

Seeking ever perfection true.

Dr T N Vasudevan