A Proud Parent

I stand here today with my collars bowed

Hoping to reap benefits of the seeds

that I years back sowed.

Unsure if I will in any way be known

For my son stepping this milestone.

For all I did was to Ignite his mind

Such that it is unconfined.

To the meagre world and the rampant monotony.

With no insistence on being a prodigy.

To make sure he knows

It's okay to fall and flutter

but not to surrender

I set free this juvenile you see on stage

To be anywhere but within this cage,

Of rote and competition cut-throat.

To stride along the road not taken

Cause if all our decisions were predefined

Our hearts and minds would never be synchronised