Saturday 17 May 2014

Nostalgia, A poem (On a relatively serious note)

I studied in the Deens Academy for 5 years from the 6th to 10th. This is the longest I've been in one school by a large margin. And I've always loved change since I was a kid. When I was little, I used to beg to sleepover at my parents' colleagues houses for a change in environment (and to avoid my parents). As others felt all nostalgic and sad that they were leaving school, I mocked them as usual for being wussies. But now I see.

I used to compare myself to a Chameleon
Cause I was used to change all the time.
But now that I find myself reminiscing
I feel the need to express feelings through this rhyme.

I can still hear Aditya S Raj shouting
And Ansh making Hyena-like sounds in class.
I see Sidharth and I laughing like drunkards on the back bench
And I still wonder how we managed to pass.


Subashri's still making tiki heads out of Chalk
And Saniya's giving people recipes for cake.
Subha's telling people how to live their lives
Because success ain't easy to make.


Manvi's screeching old Hindi songs
Shraddha's updating us with new gossip from T-Zed.
Shikhar's telling us about his true love for Drake.
And Kristina's talking a lot, but she's doing it inside her head.


Sourish is spreading his immense knowledge of subjects
And Pranati's making that usual surprised face.
Cause she just heard some new gossip that everyone already knows
And Mahima, as usual .. is just being a nutcase.


Sparsh is authoring stories
And Rakshanda's being a general nerd.
Kiara's doing tourism advertisement for Delhi
Karthik is always just one out of two love birds.


Jha's doing a star act with different characters in front of different people
And Sahana's asking Manali and I to solve her problems in the hall.
Varun is stalking another girl or bullying Ishqi.
And Nikhil is bragging about how he's relatively tall.

Who could forget Sudarshan,
He's trying to convince us that Eminem is better than all our legends of Rock.
It pains me to think all of this is gone
This nostalgia's giving me a mental block.