Yearning for Bygone Days

by vaibhav shah   Mar 17, 2008


Where are those sweet days?
When I was only a child
Worldly affairs had not spoiled my mind
The root cause of happiness
Lay in my innocent ignorance
I was as pure as white snow
How to deceive others I did not know
In God I had a great faith
Though much I was afraid of death
Love for me was only a question
That I could think without any tension
Going to school for me so far
Was like going to an endless war
Teachers approaching with duster and chalk
Appeared to me like a fearful hawk lectures proved to me a complete threat
I did not want them forever to meet
Homework for me was a huge burden
I had to beg them always for pardon
Gone are the days spent is the age
Trapped I am in a parrot’s cage
Longing for those beautiful days
Can anyone tell me where are they?

17-3-2008

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  • 16 years ago

    by Abha

    Good work, you made me nostalgic, The childhood and Schooldays can never be retraced but engraved in our memories forever, True expression.

  • 16 years ago

    by Gabba Gabba Hey

    I really like the first part of it..then it gets a tad iffy for me. Overall, I think you did a good job though. There is some odd sentence structure, that may detract from the overall poem....good though!

  • 16 years ago

    by Lonely Rider

    Brilliant write...

    "Homework for me was a huge burden
    I had to beg them always for pardon"

    ya..it reminds me of my schooldays... coming back home wit loads of homework... how i used to grumble about dat... bt still i miss those days...

    "Gone are the days spent is the age
    Trapped I am in a parrotâ??s cage
    Longing for those beautiful days
    Can anyone tell me where are they"

    ^^loved these lines... overall impressive work...

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