I Mortgaged My Future Poem by Tulsi Shrestha

I Mortgaged My Future
I can't justify why I had mortgaged my future
For the prosperity of my children's future.
No doubt,someone has rightly said
Grief is price of love, you've already paid

In my old age, I am sick, helpless and so alone
An alive lfe that is buried under burden of loan.
I killed my desire to ride even a bycycle
But for children, I purchased motorcycle.

What have I not done for their comfort & joy
Nostalgic events make me unable to cry.
Working up to eighteen hours a day
So many night shifts, I don't want to say.

In fact, I mortgaged myself for their education
Expecting sunshine, as a reward of my devotion.
Tears flooded with pain, flow from eye
The sky kneels down, when it feels shy.

In the eye of society, degree holder they are
I walk with naked feet, they travel in their car.
They've done nothing for my shelter & care
None of them, visited here, to see unwanted dear.

Their ill mom had already gone, for heavenly abode
Releasing sons from burden of paying medical load.
What a selfish world it is ! A life worthless to live
No matter how painful my life is, as a father I forgive.

Composed by Tulsi Shrestha
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