OBSESSED
Remember
college, life, intense,
Youth
colored the time, thrilled,
Curious
heart seeking searched,
Searched
things in life secretly,
Friends
closing heart matching,
Study
obsessions, a little disturbed,
Sneaking
out of class to canteens,
Girlfriend
trustworthy keeps notes,
Share
class notes or questions willingly,
Hidden
warmth, sweet understanding,
Liking
and love, youthful intrigues,
Customs,
disciplines, social misery,
Laughs
swallowed, looks deflected,
Touch
touchy matter illicitly desired,
Messages,
in small papers, in notebooks,
Exchanged
hundreds of times thirsty,
How
much ridicule for friends taunting,
Their
smiles were so irritating, placate,
Free
sweets at canteens plead to ignore,
Discovered
a friend in love and caught,
Book,
notebook, exchanged while walking,
How
many letters were exchanged, unknown,
Graduation
being completed exam near,
Stopped
friend circle, picnic, park, cinema,
Hope
colored young dreams result in reality,
An
age, no mobile, telephone rare,
Confined
to home, colleges closed, study,
Could
never dare to meet a girlfriend,
Fear
of elders for both, feeling lyrical,
Lost
the fun of youth result day,
Cycled
to friends, homes, gathered,
Waiting
for newspaper lists published,
Divisions,
honors, pass roll numbers,
Minutes,
results were known, life crashed,
Close
friends got failed, sad consoling a lot,
Another
friend excelled, never expected,
Demands
for sweets grew suddenly,
Shared
passing results somberly happy,
Visited,
colleges opened, boys and girls,
Mixed
surreptitiously with girlfriends,
Exchanged
result questions hundred,
Tomorrow
is electric yet unknown,
Thousand
promises to meet in the future,
Lines
drawn on sifting sand obliterated,
The
love-soaked night, infinite letters,
Melted
into mists of dawn, hope sprouted,
University,
friend circle changed,
Girlfriends,
now distinct of caste, class,
Distancing
with community ties,
Marriage,
ambitions of career swinging,
Married,
within own cast and status,
Settled
by now, with service, children,
Obsessed
with the life of kids young,
Online-study
coaching class internet,
Books,
question-answer sets digital,
Teachers
taking online classes to interact,
Examination-online
objective pages,
Virtual
world life changes mode,
Attending
technical colleges is costly,
Percentile
decides edge competitive,
No
one is seen who passed or failed,
Girlfriends
from not college or school,
Mobile,
cyber links unit strangers,
Lost
the decency of our generation, shy,
Bold
undesirable times of day message,
Meetings
at every odd possible place,
Certainty
sensitivity is missing,
Obsessed
with virtual human life insensitive,
Misses
the delicate soft human touch,
Visible
from our generation pitiably.
@ Bijayananda Mishra
