From df5400b3c1fef89d1f4fa10e7e1f50877db72e7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karan Jayachandra Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 13:56:39 +0200 Subject: Cleaned up the names of the posts and the file names --- content/blog/poems_past.md | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 157 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/poems_past.md (limited to 'content/blog/poems_past.md') diff --git a/content/blog/poems_past.md b/content/blog/poems_past.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b4de5b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/poems_past.md @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ ++++ +title = 'Poems From The Past' +date = 2021-10-16T16:57:45+02:00 ++++ + +These were poems that I wrote at the start of my Bachelor's studies. Please bear with them because I am sure they aren't good. However I did want to add them here for future reference. I can then look back and laugh at how bad the writing was. + +## The Engineer + +I just opened my eyes, +but the teacher is still in class. +He is really such a bore, +but he just doesn’t know that, alas. + +Everyone is acting it out, +they are now experts at faking rapport. +No point in listening now, +that ship has already sailed from the port. + +Why don’t they get it, +Can’t teach one who has no interest. +I am forced to be here, +This is really the worst, I don’t jest. + +I could be elsewhere, +doing something with my time, +but here I sit and cry, +nothing else but to write this rhyme. + +Attendance is a sin, +It’s like I am paying to be jailed. +In India, Education is a business, +No one has the interest, I assayed. + +Become an engineer, +then become what you want. +This is the mindset, +rebel and say you just can’t. + +A Nation of graduates, +yet we still have nothing to show, +be what you want to be, +only then talent in gush will flow. + +## The Future + +At times, I sit and wonder, +what awaits us I ponder. +Then I am suddenly brought, +to present where forever I am caught, +the future, we can’t control, +take life through its treacherous shoal. +In thoughts of future unknown, +we can be happy or cry and moan, +but none of that really matters, +as any future good or bad, +like glass can at any time shatter. + +## Nostalgia + +Long gone are days of childhood past, +Never knew years flew by this fast. +It happened in the blink of an eye, +the game has begun, I have cast my die. +Nostalgia, the feeling makes me think, +of years that have suddenly begun to shrink. +I have lived he best years of my life, +have had all kinds of experiences in rife. +If I were given a chance to relive those days, +I wouldn’t change a thing, whatever anyone says. +I have never known a worry till now, +I think it’s because of my parents to whom I bow. +My family can be quirky at times, +but the love they give me, can’t be put in rhymes. +The friends I have are the best I could ask for, +I’ve had many since a time long before. +I hope I’ve been as good to them as they’ve been to me, +they are the best, if you meet them you’ll see. +I hope everyone is as lucky as I have been, +So take of the blindfolds and look at the world that is yet to be seen. + +## The Road You Take + +Sometimes I wonder about what I am here for, +and when I am long gone will people sing my lore. +What is life, and how do you climb the summit of this tor? +or will I be another story that will just be a bore. + +Should I aspire to be someone whose exploits are well known, +whose stories give inspiration to millions and many more ? +Or should I be the person whose achievements are his own, +another grain in the sand on the beautiful golden sea shore. + +Aurelius rightly said, “One should have a good life”, +become immortal through the ideals and memories you leave behind. +Live a life with friends and family and have joy in rife, +your thoughts and actions stay on, thought you turn to grind. + +But there are those who want to be well known even in stranger’s eyes, +those who want to change the course of history through words and act, +these men desire power and money, and these things are surely nice, +I understand how they feel and surely what they are getting at. + +I am halfway down the middle among the two paths I talked about, +I keep dreaming, that there must be some kind of middle ground. +What if I can have privacy of home and also be an icon standing out +this is just a fantasy and for proof you just have to look around. + +This choice is one that everybody has to make, and before it’s too late, +else they might end up with nothing, even with potential great/ +Carefully weigh the options and decide and stick with the road you take, +and hopefully this poem will act as a beacon for the decision you have to make. + +## The System + +The whole education system is messed up, +I have no idea how much water is in my cup. +Am I the only one who wants to change this ? +It’s like these hacks are aiming to miss. +I know it is a difficult task at hand, +but someone somewhere must make a stand. +Rote learning is worshipped in today’s class. +Wait, is this class, or some Sunday mass. +Science is the epitome of reason and thinking, +religious fools know not what they are sinking. +An enemy of logic is the enemy of mankind. +And come what may, I will speak my mind. +They interfere in matters they know nothing about, +they are on the loosing side, they are soon to find out. +Start thinking about this before it’s too late, +we are not going anywhere at this lousy rate. +But before that we must admit that we have a problem, +without which how can we all sit down and solve them. + +## The Winner + +I see a lot of grief and sorrow, +but I still hope for a better tomorrow. +Hope helps a man of the world bear, +Woes and troubles amidst all despair. + +Some see darkness through all the light, +others see light thought the darkness, bright. +People have gone through hardships in rife, +they never complain, because that’s just life. + +These are the people who persevere and fight, +and also always keep their goal in sight. +This is why they are rewarded at the end, +but others think their success is godsend. + +But in truth god had nothing do with it, +it was just one man working bit by bit. +No one knows all the failed attempts made, +he broke the constructs, others just obeyed. +Someone said, “Only failure is not to try”, +Never gave up, he would rather just die. -- cgit v1.3.1