The joyful life of a businessman’s son

a poem by Hiren Shah

Whether your father is making profit or loss,
As long as he is in business, you automatically become a boss.

Whether through your performance you are able or not able to stir,
Nobody would dare omit addressing you as “Sir”.

When your father is in business you can be sure of one thing,
Whoever may come and go, you will be the king.

Whether it is a restaurant, factory or shop,
The principle is the same, replace the pop at the top.

If he is the proud owner of a factory
Your life is automatically catapulted to a much higher trajectory.

If he presides over a grand shop,
Security is ensured as from job to job, you don’t have to hop.

If he has opened a Restaurant,
Acceleration in life is automatic, who needs the entrepreneurial current.

If he has taken up some franchise,
Making money will not take long for with that headstart, you don’t really need to be wise.

Still better, he could be heading a big company;
In addition to attracting many a honey (girlfriends), it would ensure plenty of money.

If he is a managing director,
Nobody is going to question your credentials or doubt your character.

Who bothers about marks or qualifications?
If you are born in the right family, life begins with and is full of vacations.

Who needs a Master of Business Administration?
When on being born at the right place ensures maximum acceleration towards vertical penetration.

To top it all, if your father is the chairman,
Excellent exposure from the very first day ensures that you will never feel like a layman.

Whether or not the business breaks even,
Just the fact that you are a businessman’s son ensures that your life begins in heaven.

Who cares whether or not you achieve the right turnover,
When in personal and professional life, because of your position all are won over.

Even if you are not making much profit,
Why let it bother you when in other respects you start life with many a benefit.

Do you really need any skill or knack?
When you know that your father is perpetually behind your back.

In short, if your father is in business,
You can get away with lifelong laziness.

Half the battle of life is already won.
If you are born a businessman’s son.

I would even go far as to say that you can take it as a rule of thumb.
That as long as you are born in a business family, you can even afford to be dumb.

Even in your personal life, even if you are not dashing and good looking.
Being a business heir ensures that for your marriage, there will be plenty of advance booking.

Though a practical fact of life the girls don’t like to admit,
The lure of money is such that many among them would straightaway submit.

When they come to know that you have a rich sugar daddy,
Whether they like you or not, many among them would agree to being steady.

Some of them may get angry at this and it may arouse outrage,
Money being the most important thing in practical life plays a decisive role in marriage.

To top it all, if after your marriage you get a son
He too will be a lucky son of a gun; he may not realize what a life he has begun

Don’t let him read all this till he is ready.
After going through all this I would be surprised if he will study.

Being born a businessman’s son is really the height of luck.
Straightaway, life becomes so easy so many problems you are able to duck.

His enjoyment too cannot be any lesser
For after all it is he who is going to be your successor.

If only one could decide where one could get born,
By opting for such a life, one can remove many a thorn.

If you think that on businessmen sons’, this is a satire,
What is the need to see the lighter side when on starting their careers, they can retire.

Career and life-partner being most important decisions, whether or not I get an ideal wife.
I would like to do something currently so that I am born a businessman’s son in my next life.

Unfortunately, now this dynastic trend is also being witnessed in the political sphere.
We can’t really afford that with the already vitiated political atmosphere.