to resort to books to kill time

Image: Courtesy of  Sunday Whirl

12 given words:
flight fringe already night visible unravel 
beg exist current terrain speak file

Flight of fancy a fringe benefit
Already ingrained in many youngsters
Expected with doses of medicine as befit
At night given by a parent that bothers

Perceived as visible of a simple practice
Faithfully commencing from a young age
To expound good habits regularly not to miss
By setting a pattern for them to emulate

Such were specimens of good upbringing
On a generation engrossed in the current rave
of the social media and gamers existing
Unravelled to beg to be allowed some space

Were they not restrained to take advantage
From elders not given to technological skill
Who despite being deprived of the privilege
Resorted to books with lots of time to kill

A terrain so smooth with a parent's affluence  
Nothing to speak of but to retrieve a page
A choice from the file of life's experience
of old, contending not to risk losing face

For Brenda's Sunday Whirl #228 and
Mary's at PU's Poetry Pantry #281