Parents

I don't think parents will read my blog, but perhaps the parents-to-be will learn now, and realize later when life brings them to places they thought strange and bizarre, but remember it will be normal by then.

As children, we are thought to pay respect to our parents
To listen and acknowledge their scoldings and nagging
As gestures of their undivided love for us.

As adolescent, we realized that it has been tough to be parents
Cos it is so hard to talk to them, and make them understanding
Our feelings, our thoughts, our lifestyle as it is
That we are at the learning curve, we are like a sponge
But at the end, we will know the right and the wrong.

As an adult, we looked at our parents and now we make realization
We just don't see eye to eye
We have very contradicting opinions on everything
Yet, we matured in our hardships and struggles
We learnt to be more understanding than our parents will ever be
For we are more forgiving, more tolerant and more patient
And mainly because they are our parents.

The struggle to maintain the drifted relationship with the parents
Remain a battle that will never meet its end
And might as well, will only end when death comes calling to the bedside
For those who have done so successfully, pray that continues.

While many a-times, we give in to the tantrums of the parents
Without any benefit of doubts of their maternal and paternal instints
But it is not often that they can earn their rights to rule our life
And if they do not understand that our life is in our own hand, then we shall defy
Perhaps they will think of us a defiant and unappreciative
But we hope that they will eventually realize, we have come a long way living.

Parents, we give our thanks to them for our existence
For their guidance, if they are the right path to follow
Or we will go on the road which we have chosen
For that is the journey will go on, and with many encounters
We will never go back to them, and blame them for anything
For at the end of the day, it is our decision
We only pray they will learn to let go of the control
And to realize that they are sometimes wrong in their governance
Least they have no confident in us, thus they doubt themselves only more
We steadfast holding to our principles, and grow by our virtues groomed.

Parents, we thank you
But don't rule us for the sake of being parents
Parents, we adore you
But don't take us for fools for your old fashioned rules
Parents, we are part of you
Least you are the one who stubbornly pushed us away
Parent,s we give you your respect
Least you deemed not fit for that!