Arduous Path – Bitter Recollections

A tale of a child and childhood of pure innocence of gay abandon and play
Those sparkling twinkling eyes and a face with radiant brilliance to display
The infectious laughter ringing long after with a shower of hugs and kisses
A harbinger of joy so tender and endearing now lost whom everybody misses
Now a distant solitary figure friendless and spiritless in voluntary isolation
With a baggage of unspoken words betrayed and forsaken a case of omission

The threshold of school a step to independence to learning and assimilation
With teachers so loving inimitable irreplaceable motivating and inspirational
To channelize the unexploited and inexhaustible resource with perception
To perfect the grooming advancing rounded growth to all without exception
The journey to an unexplored land to unravel many a mystery beyond imagination
The pleasures and enrichment unfolding  a realm of idyllic miraculous progression

The halcyon era and unfettered the flight a carefree life with all joyous recollections
The picnics the campfires the crushes and heartbreaks passing in quick succession
A healthy environment to foster competition enkindle the soul  with creative innovation
No pressure of peers no arbitrary selection with fairness to all and kindled appreciation
The punishments and detentions the rewards and awards mere tokens for perfection
A life of sharing and bonding of togetherness without ulterior motives and expectation

An ill fated term with dismal foreboding the dawning of a teacher a stern reformer
A moralizer jaded and obsolete committed to correction a warped misguided preacher
A calamitous  an occurrence picked  and targeted randomly for stern imposition
An agonizing experience of helplessness of aggression repression and regression
Draconian rules were  implemented a soul now bonded and mercilessly hounded
With derogation and humiliation for subsistence no reprieve the poor soul grounded

Memories painfully so vivid as he was the perfect illustration for all presentation
The superlatives befitting honed to perfection as the best was the manifestation
The comparatives not to be forgotten all directed indiscriminately in his direction
He was a complex number with infinite failing obtuse and in constant variance
A challenge to Darwinian theory projecting social behavior beyond all explanation
All bitter recollections leading to damnation and the vestibules of abject humiliation

A seeding had been entrusted which was soiled and weeded so harshly destroyed
The produce so hideous unrecognizable and unclaimed rejected and condemned
An excellent achievement the creation of an imperfection beyond any correction
Our pedagogues teachers or cheaters? Makers or breakers? Committed resolution
To honor a mission with acceptance with no rejection aggression or suppression
A wholehearted connection towards so noble a profession with no concession.

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By: Veena Umesh Sood
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