My Teacher; Poem by Apoorva Yadav, AIMC

I WAS A TENDER CREATURE MADE BY THE GODS ,
IN THE SANDS OF THE SEA:
IRREPROACHABLE BY THE EYEING HAWKS,
AS A GULLIBLE TURTLE CLUTCH
MAKING ITS WAY TO THE GIGANTIC FAÇADE OF THE PREDATOR WORLD OF THE OCEAN.
I WAS AN INNOCENT LAMB ,
LOOKED LIVELY AS A SUNFLOWER AS THE EYES SHONE BRIGHT IN THE NOVELTY OF THE DAY.
I SWAYED ASTRAY AS I HOPPED THE BLOOD-COLORED PAVEMENT OF THE SCHOOL,
MY BAG – A MYRIAD OF BEAUTIFUL DREAMS AND A ROSY PAINTED FUTURE, AMUSINGLY SINCERE BUT COMICAL AT BEST.
MY HANDS TREMBLED AND BICKERED WITH COLD SWEAT.MY HEART SPOKE A LANGUAGE OF COLD DREAD,
POUNCING ALARMINGLY LOUD.

I WALKED BRAVELY AND FILLED MY DESIGNATED SEAT VERY CALLOUSLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM.
I WAS PERTURBED BY THE FERVENT COUP OF MISCHIEFS AS I LAY AWAKE AND DREAMT, STILL.
YOU LOOKED AT ME LOVINGLY AND GLEEFULLY TURNED YOUR GAZE TO OTHER MINIATURE MISFITS.
SOME WERE TEARY-EYED, WHILE OTHERS PLAYFULLY HOPPED AROUND.
I COULDN’T HELP BUT CLASP MY THOUGHTS THAT WERE TIMID AND UNRIPE WITH YOUR BENEVOLENCE AND THE COMFORT IN YOUR SOLACE AND THE POWER OF YOUR WISDOM.

AND AS THE DAYS PASSED BY AND THE SEASONS TURNED,
YOU HELD MY HAND WITH RESOLUTE.
YOU WERE UNRELENTING AND FIERCE. BOTH A BROLLY AND THE BRAIN TO US,YOU ALWAYS SPOKE THE TRUTH AND INSTILLED IN US ,A PRECEPT OF INTEGRITY AND CONFIDENCE WITH YOUR BRILLIANT WORDS AND PROPELLING NUDGE .
I HAD GRACEFULLY COCOONED OUT IN THE WORLD HOLDING ON TO MY PRECARIOUSNESS. BUT THIS TIME, EVEN AS THE VENTUROUSNESS OF THE EVIL HOVERED ABOVE ME, AND SET ME ABLAZE,
YOU HAD SECRETLY ENVELOPED ME IN A SHEATH OF EQUANIMITY AND
YOUR BASTION SERVED AS AN AEGIS FOR THOSE NEW AND VULNERABLE SEEKING GUIDANCE UNDER MY PATRONAGE.
I COULD SEE YOU IN ME. AND REALISED THAT ,
I REMEMBER TEACHER, YOUR EVERY WORD OF AFFIRMATION ,
AND YOUR EVERY SCORN IN THE WAKE OF WICKED.
YOU MADE ME WHAT I AM TODAY, AND FOR IT ,I’LL FOREVER BE GRATEFUL,
TO MY ADORABLE TEACHER, WHO CANNOT BE DESCRIBED IN A DAY OR
ON A PARCHMENT OF APPRECIATION.
YOU VALUES LIVE ON ,IN US ,
YOUR KNOWLEDGE ENGRAVED IN US , NOW PASSED ON TO MORE.
YOU LIVE THROUGH US AND YOUR MORALS BEQUEATHED IN GENERATIONS TO COME.