Dear Parents!

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O precious choice of God for me!

not only sky, not only the earth,

but gave me this whole universe

when you gave me the birth.

You provided me with golden feathers

to take flight with feet on ground ,

fed me bites from empty vessels,

kidnapped my agony, if any around.

You radiated in darks like burning lamps

to ignite my room with smile among tears,

and sparkled in nights as million stars 

to illuminate my roof shedding foe-fears.

Your prayers grew with me growing up

in hope to protect me from every evil eye,

however far be in days - gaily or plight

I found you with me to laugh and cry.

You seemed to guise in hard sometimes

yet containing sweet, soft kernel inside,

your affection- an unfathomable sea or

heat concealed in bosom of ash to pride?

You appeared to extend hands of savor

when I engulfed in deep hole of dismay,

and shared the most informal affinity

that never expected me to repay.

                                              -Shivali