Father And Child In The System Poem by Udaya R. Tennakoon

Children are bright and educate well
Father is so happy and helps them

The happiness in his mind and
The success of the child how would realize

Father is a marxist
Father isagainst the system
Father is an alternative
Father is an enemy

Then what is his happiness
As other parents` or something different

Success of the child means
Follow the system well
To be a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer and so forth

Is his child like him
Thoughts of abnormal or revolutionary
Educate in school but differently
Talk about injustice and philosophy and politics and so forth

May be the happiness is
Following the system and then to change it

How would you think of yours
If you are a father or a mother

If your child goes further to do
Whatyou could not achieve
Is that mean follows the way
Or out of the way

Or whatever it is
Happiness and success have no lines