Irony

Parents
hold their toddler
with firm grip
of love and care
ensuring the child
best security
    - regardless of the environ -
a basic requirement
for growth, stability
harmony and success
 
Inversely
where the toddler alone
latches on to the parents
    - forlorn and neglected -
remains vulnerable
with every possibility
of becoming estranged
and getting misplaced
in the milieu of life
 
This parental neglect
mutates the toddler
into a disgruntled person
discarded to live a life
stuck in the grooves of
coercive and manipulative societies
divided by isms, castes
and sectarian dogmas
ruled by the selfish
in a state of governance
that stands wrinkled and defiled
by the mafia
of merciless politicians -

An ironical
but true
diktat of today!