It is said that a person experiences his second childhood when he steps in to old age. But is the second childhood same as the first? When the parents gave everything away for their little one’s childhood, same parents are thrown away in their second childhood. Why?
A life begins with a childhood
Ends with the same stage
Like a circle, the beginning
Meeting the end.
First came being edentulous
So the second, finding difficult
To speak, others couldn’t
Interpret what they say.
Both of them stubborn at
Heart, want they fancy at
Any cost. One would wail,
The other chided away.
Had millions of question, each
Asked billions times. One had
Patient answers, a deaf ear
Was turned to other one.
Tripped while walking, one
Had a support, the other
Left with a wobbling,
Old stick.
One cry, thousand came
To help one. Other’s thousand
Cries didn’t stir even
One rigid, hard soul.
A loving, aesthetic life
Lead one. The other lived
With struggles, hard times
And sobbing heavy eyes.
Both needed love and care
First had parents. Same
Left alone, in old age home,
During second childhood.
Eloraquence 