Nostalgia
Nostalgia
A school is a second home to children
Apart from teaching, living skills also are a consideration
To mould them not just as students,
But also as good and law-abiding citizens
Primary, secondary and senior sections
Are levels to cross to obtain higher education
Kids at the beginning levels are innocent blossoms
Blooming gradually spreading along joy and radiance
The middle-level boys, just becoming aware of themselves
Getting naughty and nutty with anything and everything else
Now into their adolescence with varying levels of consciousness
Becoming more and more aware of their own needs and success
Preferring back benches, cutting jokes and pulling legs
Sometimes they are sane a
nd other times restless
Spinning stories or heroic tales about themselves
Trying to impress girls during the intervals
Defying and denying is their seal of adulthood
Believing that they are now into their stage of manhood
Friends matter the most in every whim and fancy
Peer pressure is what they love to share and copy
Good friends can draw out the best in them, wholesome
And bad influences can affect their future handsome
They finally step out into the world so vast and vibrant
Carving out a niche for themselves in the cosmos for sustenance
When they look back, they think of the school, benches, and friends, nostalgic
The good times, rough times and
Other times so beautiful and ecstatic.