BETWEEN WORDS AND PLAY

 Disclaimer:  This poem is purely fictional and it does not , in any way, reflect our parenting style.😂😂

It’s hard to put thoughts on paper.

Nobody understands that.

But then

They get a good ragging from their teacher

About a bad piece of writing.

Or a horribly written passage on ‘Punctuality’.

Which is so boring, by the way.

My parents always say ‘Do your homework and then go out to play’.

They are the worst.

‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’

Some wise scholar said.

What if he wasn’t actually a wise scholar?

But

A boy suffering.

A boy named Jack.

Whose parents were just like mine.

Why can’t they just understand?

That writing, for me, is a snooze fest.

Just imagine Roald Dahl.

One of the most decorated authors.

Yet

He struggled in school.

 His teachers.

They called him a ‘Camel in his English’.

Don’t teachers and parents get it?

Football is just as important as Maths.

Cricket as English.

And

Tennis as Science.

Yeah, they don’t believe so.

Pity!

-         ANAYA SHETH