Hallowed

                        

                                           The heart drenched in old memoirs fluttered,

                                          As i caught a glimpse of the 150 year old

                                           Mansion through the eternal lens of Time.

                                          Perplexed i stood as the giant

                                          Bulldozer approached with a smirk

                                          In its face ;

                                          Gone were the days when animal-

                                         Like laughter reverberated among the

                                        Walls ;And gave a hope to these

                                          Dreamy eyes of mine.

                                      Then , beyond the fenced barrier was a

                                      Truant,trying to evade the strict

                                       Headmaster's roving sight and

                                      Wondering how to assimilate the little joys amidst

                                       The tiresome sessions of 'classroom feeding '

                                     Suddenly the moistened eyes became  a

                                     Witness  to the metamorphosis of our

                                     Hallowed place of learning into a heap

                                     Of debris ,

                                     And  i stood motionless like a nobody.

                                     Lost was the value and  the vision       

                                     That drove us to many a merriment ,

                                      Though somewhere deep down it lives on in anonymity .

                                     Scouring through the dingy lanes of that

                                     Old town i found  no vestige, that spoke

                                     Of the glorious days of the past.

                                    I submitted to Fate,engulfed by darkness all around 

                                   And it all appeared and seemed to fade 

                                   Into oblivion in a jiffy, biding   goodbye ;

                                   A sense of remorse filled my whole being

                                   And the only words uttered  failed to 

                                   Traverse beyond  ' I  wish .................. .'

Rupsha Mukherjee

 English,UG-1 ,Presidency University .