My Son: Gone To The Dogs! Poem by kafil uddin raihan.

He was my son,
He was the reason,
I've stopped reading newspaper,
Since 15 years.

It was a morning,
While I was on gardening.
My elder son was then only five,
He came to me and asked,
The questions I never figure out.
'Papa, Why peoples become devil?
Why they kill, murder, Why?
What makes them so cruel?
How they could do those?
Tell me papa why and how? '
I was dumb and silent,
In fact these were my questions too.
And I did not know the answers!

Fifteen years later,
My boy is now twenty.
Once I heard the news,
That was most shocking,
I was so surprised!
That was totally unexpected!
My boy have been arrested,
For murdering his so called girlfriend!
I knew him,
He has already gone to dogs,
he was an addicted!
I failed to back my son.
To keep him on the right track.
After few weeks I have gone,
I have gone to the jail to see him.
I said him nothing, no words.
I was so ashamed of him,
I felt it was my failure,
For what he is here.

After a silent storm,
Once he said to me,
'I have got the answers, papa!
When I was a baby,
Angels rid on my shoulders,
But now the demon replace him,
I am no a new beast,
Out of everything,
Love, affections, respects,
All these now make no sense.
Papa I am a devil now!
And I am the result of these,
This society, this man,
This life, this surroundings,
They have driven away my angel,
And shelter me to the demon!
Papa, hate me, hate them,
Hate this ugly world! '

Still now I don't read newspapers,
They show my child another world,
That I never want him to be.
But he is now in there,
Lost his angel,
He is walking to the way to demon....