Stream of Consciousness Saturday- “apparent/a parent.”

 

ODE TO ALL PARENTS

By Neel Anil Panicker

You can rent everything but not a parent

That’s so very apparent.

As to which parent is better

Oh, isn’t that a nonsensical question?

It is much like asking

Do you like the Earth or the Sky?

A Hobson’s choice indeed!

This is not a do or die

And there’s no why.

No this or that

no wrong or right

Parents are not this and that

and these and those

With them,

For them

there are no whos and whys

No truths and lies

For if you decide to choose

One over the other

Don’t simply bother

You just stand to lose

But if you insist

And still persist

Man, go fly a kite

For you may be only one,

But for them,

You are the only one.