To The Eternal Learner of English
(Specially for 5th September-Teacher’s Day)
by Dr. Kum Kum Ray
These dragging, drudges, forty ticks of a minutes hand,
That brings us together
Huddled in a classroom
For this eternal cycle,
Of give and take,
In the rare commodity
One calls knowledge…
In the shivering cold,
And thundering rain,
In foggy mists,
On a mundane plane,
We interact,
On Muses delight—
To learn of happy lays,
In sorrowful strains.
We transact;
On literature,
And what it recounts-
Of lives gone awry,
Of life gone waste,
Of life spent –a- pinning,
And the wilting of the soul away.
We transcend,
On Indo- Anglicans;
Narayan, Khushwant Singh, and Ruskin Bond
You look askance,
And I see it in your eyes,
The expectations,
The elations,
‘on whom I expound’
I explain;
I am transfixed;
I am transpired,
Transformed
Into that divine being,
You would be moved to venerate,
In those transient forty ticks,
That brings us together
AND
Create bonds
That grow till eternity…………..
**ELTWeekly Team would like to thank Dr. Kum Kum Ray for contributing this poem.