How, Why and Who?

How, Why and who?

P K Routray

Find, we a new born child

ignorant, innocent and mild

smiling, kicking and sucking from its mother

crying when it is in pain, thirst and hunger.

Learns it further from its experiences

may be, by touch, sight and other senses

and from environmentally imparted lessons.

That is what is common man’s general observations.

They find no answer

as to how the child distinguishes sweet from bitter,

at least in smell and taste

as in them these nobody gets time to inculcate.

Who taught them to laugh and cry

one for sorrow, the other for the joy?

Who taught them to suck and move their legs and hands

and to recognize their mothers and put forth their demands.

Or from the children or childhood we retain these expressions.

Bewilder these, this author begging here for explanations

as to the “How”, “Why” and “ Who” to probe in to these surprises

as this is amusing this novice author since ages,

except believing that the child had a life earlier.

Or taught and trained by the Almighty before birth as the other answer