Return Childhood Back To Child

A child is a child

Childhood is for growing up 

With fun and frolic

As serene and calm as sunrise

Full of beauty and natural grace

However, we the parents, guardians 

And society at large, including peers 

have reduced child to an obedient student

For scoring higher and higher

Like a marking machine

School Bag with Books outweigh him 

Learning demands take up all his time 

His universe shrinks to the dirty classroom 

Among peers of also-ran

It is Midsummer Heat at Sunrise

Freshness subdued, tired expressions of fatigue

And Frustration Writ large all around 

Leave the child to lead a natural life

Of a childhood that develops him integrally

Let us not throw the baby to the mark-getter battle

Where for each additional mark

He sacrifices the child in him 

Let us not judge children by yardsticks of ours

Let him have his natural pace and flow

Nature is best when it is at its natural best

Education is not all about memorizing 

Talent is not a by-product of books and more

Give Childhood back to the child

And let him have his pie of fun and enjoy

Each moment of a most precious part of life

To have the values which make a better man of him.