GRANDPA

Remember lovingly I, those years precious.
Your feeding us with food, truly delicious.

Your inculcating, values religious; help me,  so much today.
About the Shahnameh, n its heroes, all that you did narrate n say;

You, calling us by names of famous Persians ;
Building a sense of pride in us ; Cocassians.

Those stories wonderful, about our kings n pehlwans great ;
And the pathetic sad ones about our ancestors fate.

That picture, so well painted by you, in my memory still dwells.
Even today,  with their pain, often a tear in my eye swells.

Thank you dearest Dosu-pappa,  for this love, that you inculcated ;
Understand I the torture n pain, of our ancestors, that you stated.

Let me this important value instill, in our  children young.
To narrate, how our ancestors, to their religion diligently clung.

Armin Dutia Motashaw