A Life Of Joint-Family Partners! Poem by Ramesh T A

Joint-family beneficiaries are sleeping partners of business;
Day and night, they don’t know the difference between them;
Days go on as in romantic adventure stories good or bad ever!
For all the expenses money is used from the common pool -
Marriages, building constructions and election expenses included!

Working partners are the leaders but they can’t take their share alone;
After the demise of patriarchs joint family became nuclear families;
Business of the State too came down miserably affecting them;
Then demises in the working partner side affected their heirs too;
The selfish acts of sleeping partners brought down the reputation!

Frugal spending and careful planning helped to manage great crisis
For the working partners, but the sleeping partners exploited old name;
The advantages they enjoyed made them lucky to go happily as usual;
But the working members lived with honour and reputation as usual!