Culture Poem by Nafisa SB

[For many years it was felt and said]

If we can't eat with forks
And can't cut with knives
Then how can we be expected
to be good society wives?

We can't even speak
with a well-modulated voice
neither are we taught
elegance, charm or poise

The etiquette we are taught
is really out of date
we really wont advance
if we go at this rate

Decoration of the home
has to be done with grace
much money is therefore spent
to create an inviting place


Make-up, we thought
Was real beauty care
and so we used creams
to make us all fair

at beauty-parlors we then
spent many of the hours
in order to be fresh
and glowing like the flowers

Schools did not teach us
to sew or to cut
to break and then
properly eat a walnut

we were not taught
all the fine arts
or how to love others
from our very hearts

we were not taught
what we should know
so how could we then
our real culture show?


The subjects which we learnt
Could never, never be
Put into practice
By you or by me

Pray tell me then
How to do with flair
Anything at all
That was kept in our care

For students never were
Taught all those things
which to, all of them
a sense of satisfaction brings

So you can see now
what our children ought to know
in order to be seen
As polished to the core

Finishing schools are there
To teach us all the graces
But they are too expensive
In most of the cases

The schools should therefore start
teaching all they can
to make out of our kids
A cultured woman or man.