College re-visited

The people, their traces
Places that used to bear familiar faces
Never ending nonsensical talks
Twilights and long walks
The chewing gums, the fights
Carefree days, insomniac nights
Rotten humour’s victorious grin
Banging heads over melodious din
Lunatic fits of dancing in the lawns
Followed by trite lectures with yawns

Professors- who knew more than they taught
Professors- who talked more than they knew
Some knew more than we could ever digest
Shakespearean critique of potter’s quest

A new bag full of fresh perspectives
Old expressions got new adjectives
We now existed in ‘dismantled’ frame of mind
Once called ‘secret’ now became ‘clandestine’
Innuendoes, words with numerous connotations
Words that sounded like ‘anthropomorphization’
Snake that no longer looked like a snake
Foucault put our very existence at stake

Still it was fun one way or the other
We cribbed and sulked,
And culled and mulled

I saw it all over here
Love, friendships and betrayals
Or real life characters of literary portrayals
Today, sitting here
I wonder what has changed
I do not find anyone
Anyone but myself
Sitting and writing
As ‘that’ life flashes past me
Between sips of iced tea

We all scrap and tweet
Don’t get the time to ‘really’ meet
As we all smile from the mug shots
Nostalgia cripples as memories clot
Even this vision will soon become too blur to see
Between sips of iced tea …