Helpful Brother Poem by Prabhakar Subramaniam

The younger brother

Who refuses to get up

To go to college

Till the last moment

Is up early,

Turns very helpful

In the morning rush hour,

Offering to run errands,

Buy vegetables,

Not once complaining

To run back to the shop again

To get some ingredient

Mother as usual forgets,

As a sister

My suspicions

Are aroused,

To test him

I ask him to give me

A lift to the bus-stop

On his bicycle

He readily agrees

After dropping me off

I catch him lingering

Till his eyes light up

On seeing someone in the bus

I am not surprised

When he offers me his services

The next morning too