“Daily duty duly done,
Makes you happy I tell you son “
That was taught in the village school
Under a teacher who no nonsense
brooked.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed”
When in trouble, it’s what you feel
There are friends who let you down
There are those, you could sincerely
count
“Life is not a bed of roses”
As roses too have thorns in their
stalks
Ups and downs in this walk of life
Are what one should learn to bear and
strive.
“Reading maketh a full man
Writing a perfect man”
Fools could neither read nor write
So are animals who live by might.
“Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and
wise”
Parents insisted in my early
childhood
That stood good in my exuberant
youth.
“Stone wall does not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage”
This was proved when scaling the wall
To meet his love, before break of
dawn.
G.A.D.Sirimal
