Past And Present Poem by chandra thiagarajan

People between 1930 - 1980 born
Are ridiculed by this generation with scorn
They may deride us
And they may depreciate us
But we are the ones who are lucky
And we are the ones who live with satiety..

.We were the ones who without fear
Slept with our parents near
To nothing we were allergic
We ate all with fun and frolic
Kitchen cupboards were not tragic
They didn't posses child-proof locks magic.

Our shoulders weren't bent
With large book bags ascent
We weren't propelled to out shine
We moved in our own steady line.

On return from school when home bound
Till dusk we played in the play ground
We weren't confined to rooms and there found
With video games, face book, and twitter around
We played with real friends and had an out-let
Not with virtual friends on the inter-net.

When thirsty we drank pipe water
We never knew mineral water
One juice bottle got to be sipped by a gang
But ne'er had we fell ill with a pang
Every thing -even lots of sweets- we ate
But were slim and ne'er put on weight.

With out slippers the whole day we tread
But to nothing untoward we were lead
Though studied under dim light
We ne'er wore spec's for our sight
We didn't drain up health drinks
But downed porridge without blinks.


We ne'er went shopping for toys
But made our own things of choice
Our parents hadn't enough money
But ne'er gave thought to have any
What they sought weren't things, but only love
What they gave were love and pure love.

For them to call us, we were close by and agile
They hadn't any need to have a mobile
If we were ill the doctor visited our house
We ne'er ran to his clinic with a grouse
We conveyed through letters our tender feelings
Not through fake words via cell with just lip dealings.

We acted as per our heartfelt words
Ne'er went back and ate up the words
We hadn't Cell phone, DVD, PC, Net or Playstation
Video- games, Chat or any such temptation
We had lots of true friends for entertainment
Whose homes we visited without appointment.

In those days we had great leaders' movement
Who spent their own money for society's improvement
There were no politicians as of this day
Whose corrupt practices do them fatly pay
Our photos were of black and white
The persons there had their hearts polite.
Now the photos are in colours vibrant
But the persons' hearts are not elegant.

We were never beggars to seek a plea
And appropriate things for free.
People between 1930—1980 born
Are ridiculed by this generation with scorn
But we are the ones who are lucky
And we are the ones who live with satiety.
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We are awesome! Our life is a living proof! !