THE WORDS OF MY SILENCE [poems]

EDUCATION

Education is a word so valuable,
Education is something incomparable.
It's just like God's gift,
It is everyone's wish.

It wakes up the mind just like morning sunshine,
And make us stand first in line.
It makes us feel proud to raise the head and walk,
And gives the confidence to talk.

But now,
It's no more a God's gift, it's just a market thing.
You can buy your education just like you buy your ring.
Now It is arranged in quality wise sets.
The more one pays, the more quality he gets.

School is the place where we get Education.
intelligence and knowledge are the two gifts of Education.
But just think, how many schools can give them both?
How many can fulfill our hopes?

With a lot of dreams, parents join their children in the reputed school,
But they don't know that there's a different kind of rule.
The rule which divides clever from duller.
It is the society's unity killer.

Clever has a separate class, staff, and care
But duller gets them together so rare
It's the duller who needs them more
It's the school which made them poor

They only need the ranks 1 2 3 4
They only care for those who give them more
They never look at the others standing in the dark
Waiting for the light that makes them bright

I wonder when will they recognize, it's not great being first
But to learn discipline first
One must learn how to live and how to care
But the people who care are now so rare

It's all because we made them all
Why we should run so fast forgetting all
Sit for a minute and think for a while,
have you enjoyed your life's single mile?

Teach the students how to enjoy their lives
Teach them how to design their lives
Teach them how to handle the pressure
And then you increase the pressure

Teach them theory and let them explore
Let them analyze and let them explain
And then you test them with all your questions
Now see how they'll answer your every question

If you think it'll take more time
Then make our textbooks thin this time
Don't you think it's wrong prescribing the syllabus
That can't be taught in just one year.

And finally, what I want to say is
Don't make students feel like education as a burden
Let them see the school as a beautiful garden
Help them to find a way
Help them to walk that way

Help the students to become bright
Because they are the one who shows us light
They are the society makers
Don't let the marks become their Heart Breakers.

-Laxmi Bhargavi Golla