Care spared wrangled hair <br />Over-sized banyan, style, not to care <br />Pants tucked and tied round waist <br />Featured pauper, displaying hasty face <br /> <br />Skeletal limbs, mother couldn't care <br />How he looked, she wouldn't compare <br />Sharp eyes and ears, ever on alert <br />Scanned around for anything worth <br /> <br />Beside mother, clung on like a bear cub <br />Ready to take command, by the familiar rub <br />Barely seen the world plays the role of dad <br />Boy, you, inadvertently derived in me, a sob<br /><br />Jayatissa Liyanage<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-boy-20/
