Today returned to my alma mater: Mayo College, Ajmer where I spent the most important formative years of my life and met friends after a gap of nearly 20 years. 20 long years!! Batchmates changed , humbled, unrecognizable from the grind and the rough and tumble of the past 2 decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each emotion is in complete sync with Anurag Mathur\u2019s poem \u2018RETURN\u2019 :<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I returned to the land of my youth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to childhood dreams and first passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That world had shrunk, distances had shrivelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The kindly giants now looked up to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The singing stones spoke to me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Snapping open the clam of memory,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And in there lay the moonlight,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A luminous pearl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I looked into that globe and of course<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Memories are made of moonlight<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That cleans out the dirt and the dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the ugliness of the daily interaction<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remembered most of all the sunsets,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When some unbelievable talented God<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Painted the sky to his satisfaction<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was a friendly tree in the schoolyard, long suffering,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the sun on a winter afternoon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friends with breaking voices,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And cricket on a turning track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I leave from the distance I see the fort,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Supine like a sleeping God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haughty in its power,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brooding in the gloom,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of bitter things seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terrible in its beauty,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heedless of our pygmy lives\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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