This heart beats fast!
Once upon a joyous day
10,958 days to be plain
Of a noble start so gay
A humble start so gay
Flimsy days of restlessness
Sluggish months of idleness
Pretty years of ignorance
Make up the early five
Five to twelve the prime of age
Labourious days at five began
With “Teacher’s waiting at the door”
With broken slumbers, scaring canes
Seven to one: the time in cage
A thorny page of life unveiled
But yet I knew not why
I was so thoroughly schooled
Oh memorable days of teens!
Oh bountiful grace of God!
Away from home in hostels
The hostels like hotels
The hostels like dens
With bullies handling powers
Familiar turns of boards
My debut at conscious learning
Anxiety of PHY-CHEM-BI
The often delinquency
Excessive subject stabbing
Frivolous drunken moments
Characterised my teenage years
Most shameful of recklessness
But I knew in half
What reason I did school
The citadel of Bachelors
The last hurdle to meal tickets
The crucial mould of men
That sifts the boys from men
To consolidate the yester years
To redeem the years of ignorance
And months of idleness
Were two seasons elusive
But when I soon regained
I went, I saw and won
And really loved the trade
But lost in that euphoria
A costly step at the rear
Ensnared my glorious plight
My tender soul affright
My budding talent, the burdened
The elephant headed burden
At just a twenty and two
Manly struggle thus began
Where it ought to end
A walk before a crawl
A jump before a walk
For whatsoever reason
Retrospective strides begotten
The past eight graphed it thus
Wavering careers and staccato jobs
Unsettled homes and separate squats
While life is almost half past dawn
Ensnaring steps aside
Could life have been the better?
Peers should prove the latter
This storm I must weather
As the needle threads the cloth
These pieces at once to gather
Never ceasing in transit
My thread at all shall stare
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