{"id":4730,"date":"2025-09-30T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:57:27","slug":"respect-your-parents-a-poem-dr-trilok-kumar-jain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/iu\/respect-your-parents-a-poem-dr-trilok-kumar-jain\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect Your Parents &#8211; A Poem Dr Trilok Kumar Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bow to the mother.<br \/>Touch her feet.<br \/>We fold our hands in temples.<br \/>Forget our parents at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From dawn to dusk,<br \/>she works unseen.<br \/>Helping us like a lamp.<br \/>Guarding our life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She makes the house a temple.<br \/>She sweeps the floor.<br \/>She sings aarti.<br \/>She is the first teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She serves the meal.<br \/>She packs the tiffin.<br \/>She sends us away with care.<br \/>Do we say, \u201cRest now\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are always in haste.<br \/>She waits at the door.<br \/>Do we bow our head?<br \/>Do we acknowledge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/untitled-640-x-359-px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/untitled-640-x-359-px.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/untitled-640-x-359-px-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We throw our shoes.<br \/>We scatter books.<br \/>She gathers all.<br \/>Do we ever thank?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At night she cooks again.<br \/>She scrubs the brass.<br \/>She spreads the bedding.<br \/>Do we smile with joy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shravan Kumar knew.<br \/>He carried them both.<br \/>On forest paths.<br \/>On sacred ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessed are the grateful.<br \/>Cursed are the blind.<br \/>Who forget the givers.<br \/>Who forget their roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respect the father.<br \/>Respect the mother.<br \/>Their blessing is wealth.<br \/>Their word is dharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day will come<br \/>We will loose them<br \/>We will miss them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bow to the mother.Touch her feet.We fold our hands in temples.Forget our parents at home. From dawn to dusk,she works unseen.Helping us like a lamp.Guarding our life. She makes the house a temple.She sweeps the floor.She sings aarti.She is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4314,4313],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iu","tag-dr-trilok-kumar-jain","tag-inspiring-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iuemag.com\/inspi-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}