If you can give <br />Why do I need to ask? <br />If you can open doors <br />Why do I need to knock? <br />I sit on the porch <br />Of the college chapel <br />With no prayer, <br />No service is on <br />All students have gone <br />Home, for vacation. <br />The gulmohurs <br />Bursting into flames <br />As if on cue <br />Intone the legend <br />Above the library entrance <br />'Purificatus non consumptus! ' <br />They do not mind me <br />An outsider now <br />Without a roll number <br />Just stopping by <br />With a sigh <br />They do not ask me <br />Why am I here? <br />Sitting with a tear, <br />Thinking of yesteryear, <br />When there was someone else near.<br /><br />Prabhakar Subramaniam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alma-mater-8/
