My students reel under the burden of new knowledge! <br />Whereas I stuff their minds with my old fables. <br />I read out a verse of Auden or Tagore <br />And begin to think of a great poet remembered. <br />But my students continue to reel under the Sun <br />Of new opportunities in the next phase of theirs. <br /> <br />My students of past are now in tens of thousands <br />Making dollars in the land of the kangaroos below the Indian Ocean <br />And beyond the Atlantics where the War mongers live in fear. <br />They reel under the clouds of new packages and amenities. <br />My voice is down, my energies are fading and <br />I reel under an agony `WHICH IS UNKNOWN TO THEM`. <br /> <br />My new students take an outh that 'they will not', <br />That 'they will not reel under the SUN of past'. <br />They whisper into my ears the glory <br />Of the emerging India - a new land of newer billionaires <br />And ask why they should make voyages now <br />As the new packages and amenities are great in the land of <br />Gandhi too - the land of three hundred million have-notes. <br /> <br />My new students whisper into my ears a new poem <br />I don`t know its script, nor do I know its rhyme and rythum. <br />I don`t know the poetry of the present. <br />But I know it for certain, you all bet <br />All are reeling under a thing or another <br />For there are always verses to spill over times. <br /> <br />First submitted: Saturday, March 08,2008<br /><br />M.D Dinesh Nair<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-reeling-for-all-3/
