Virtual childhood

Childhood, a memorable period in life

With innocence flowing down like ncectar

Curiosity to know about everything

Comes instinctively from the blood

As each passing day moves into a shade with a wish

That someday I will also grow up like my idol

So strong and so smart

Dreaming to become super heroes

Like in the movies that I saw recently

Well slowly, things are changing

As kids are born beside the gadgets

They become knowledgeable even before they mature

As internet and television takes them

To a world of knowledge

Good and bad

Rather than playing on grass or fields with friends

The general leisure sports

More and more kids are playing alone

In their rooms using computers', mobile phones',playstations'

Nindetos and countless gadgets

Playing themselves as the heroes

Shedding virtual blood with fun

They race on virtual fast cars and bikes

Than on their cycles

Dead toys are getting old fashioned

With electronic gizmos taking their place

Kids now know things, which their parents struggle to learn

They just sneaks into the horizons of forbidden trut

Even before their minds are ready to take it

Some of them wish to try out, to quench curiosity

With virtual strangers lurking out in dark internet highway

To take advantage of straying lambs

It is a vulnerable childhood

With temptations everywhere

When all the heroes do nothing moral or logical

There is a curious case of y-generation asking

Wh ‘y’ we shouldn’t do this and that?!

With no censorships to keep kids away

Every distorted facts looks like truth for them

When parents themselves can’t be role model

Given their troubles their past

Their silence act as manure for growing as rebels

But virtual world also boosts whiz kids

Who just grows beyond their age with their ideas

As database is there for them to get all ingredients

A platform to attain stardom

Now it’s not all about studying schoolbooks

It’s about getting all the knowledge

Beyond the limited walls of schools and libraries

A more tactical generation is coming up

Born and bred through virtual child hood