It doesn't matter at all if you didn’t clamber up the
corporate ladder to success; prepared appetizing food
in the domestic kitchen instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t earn exorbitant
heaps of money; waited with a glimmer of hope in your
eyes for your husband to arrive back from office
instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t pioneer
spurious conferences; relaxed in the blissful shades
of the lawns; catering to each plant with astronomical
love and empathy instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t march towards
work at electric pace 9 'O' clock every morning;
profoundly engrossed yourself in meticulously cleaning
the entire household instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t surf the web
for hours on the trot chatting with Business magnates;
acerbically scolded the Milkman for not delivering
milk on time instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t enter the bank
ever in your life; busied yourself safeguarding and
refurbishing your husbands assets at home instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t adorn glamorous
clothes and an ocean of ostentatious scent; handsomely
chopped a plethora of vegetables for afternoon lunch
instead,
It doesn’t really matter if you didn’t speak in
bombastic English all day; recited sacrosanct hymns in
front of the deity you worshipped instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t wander in and
out of sleazy restaurants to entertain a bunch of
baseless clients; nostalgically browsed through the
collection of your childhood photographs instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t use pompous
interjections like 'sorry'; 'excuse me'; 'thank you',
'please'; every minute; merrily played with scores of
infants seated on the golden sands instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t change cars as
frequently as your clothes; molded toys of delectable
clay to amuse those orphaned instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t blow your
entire life in extravagant clouds of cigarette smoke;
narrated enchanting stories to your entire family at
late night; to ease off their tensions and put them
off to tranquil sleep instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t function like
clock work all throughout the day; meeting a series of
deadlines, fantasized about making this Universe a
paradise to live and exist instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t use
manipulative jargons in your speech; displayed pure
passion in your eyes to help your counterparts and
siblings instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t bark orders in
your sonorous voice to your team of snobbish
compatriots; engaged yourself splendidly knitting for
your grandchildren instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t drink
inebriating pegs of scintillating whisky in the
contemporary bar; fed your pet cat with loads of rich
cream and milk affectionately instead,
It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t have contacts
spread all over awaiting to execute your every command
at the mere tap of your finger; satisfied yourself
tremendously in bathing your children clean of their
incorrigible dirt instead,
And It doesn’t matter at all if you didn’t achieve any
target in your life; didn’t earn even a single penny
of your own irrespective of your age; remained a
complete recluse without intermingling the slightest
with the pompous society,
As I would still 'CONSIDER YOU THE GREATEST'; for
bearing me 9 months in your belly; evolving me to
admire all the beauty that philandered in this world;
making me capable of confronting any difficulty that
came my way; and granting me the privilege to enjoy
all that I was today…
(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.
