Future Of The Nation!

Written: 6th January, 2004.


They say,

That we are the future of the nation.

But still,

These grown-ups want all the appreciation

For themselves.

Oh, Elves!

Please help us,

Ask Santa to take us to another dimension,

Where we can be the sole deciders

Of our fate and future;

Where, there would be no such thing,

As a grown-up creature.



They keep on telling us, what to do.

They treat us as slave.

They make us eat all the leafy goo!

And they teach us, how to behave.



They do not care about themselves:

How can they tell us, what to do,

When they aren’t aware of what they are doing?

The mess they are making in the world…I mean

Destroying the earth,

Which was once very green!



…And what about their eating habits?

All they eat is junk,

And feed us with the food

That is eaten by the rabbits!



They scold, “Behave yourself!”

But, do they know,

How to behave themselves?

Yeah, according to them,

The seven sins,

Are their only kins!



They say once again,

“You kids are the future of the nation!”

But, I wonder,

Once, they were also kids:

The future of the nation.

But, what have they achieved

By the scolds of their grown-ups?

Trickery, dishonesty and selfishness, is that all,

They have learnt?

Please forgive us,

We don’t want to be like them;

We don’t want the world to be a mess.

Please! Let go us.

We want to live together with love and peace.

‘Oh God! Please bless us!

Let us be free,

And live our lives without any malice.

After all,

We are the future of the nation:

Your most vulnerable creation!’