Unlearn

Today while reading something,

I remembered an old conversation-

I had with my daughter a few years back,

She was hardly six then,

That moment had touched me-

And I had jotted that instance down

Which went like this:

My daughter told- 

Recollecting our previous talks,

Which was her curiosity session,

And going a bit further, she said:

 “Everything is made of chemicals,

Even you and me…”

I nodded my head in agreement,

A bit astonished that she had extrapolated,

Further from what I had said.

Her curious eyes glittered-

She raised an eyebrow and said again 

While playing with her doll,

“But there's something that's not

Chemical in this world…”

I expectantly looked at her-

Though I knew it would turnout wrong,

Hiding my thought, I calculated 

How would I be saying that she got it wrong,

But, she said: “letters…”

She reminds me oft-

That I need to learn from her!

This was just another moment.

Children point the depth of ignorance

And the false sense of knowledge

We carry along.

We, sometimes need to unburden

The sophistications and unlearn,

That we can enjoy the running trees

While we move ahead in vehicles,

And many more subtle moments taken for granted

Which would have been mesmer,

Instead those moments, unlived in 'knowledge'!

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