CHILDREN'S DAY
Not just diminishing, almost perishing is our community
Innumerable elders like us, find we, tottering around, with decreasing immunity;
Where today children rare have become, thanks to causes complex n varied;
But our heads, like an ostrich, we have conveniently deeply buried
Indifference and silence this, is killing a society, once very vibrant
It's not that we have resources none; we have to try, n them hunt
Only if I were a multimillionaire, surely a corpus huge I would create;
That corpus, which would greatly help middle class parents to procreate
May a multimillionaire come forward one of these days, to an amount pay;
So that, have we can, at least a babies few by November next, on Children's day.
With a prayer to Ahura, to send a compassionate heart who loves Parsis.
So that, soon there will be an increase in the number of new born Parsis.
Armin Dutia Motashaw