The man who carried the softest of emotions, with no air of prejudice displayed some tougher traits for time to prove his eternal being on Earth.


 
My Headmaster

The man I met last time was tall and lean
He did wear a spectacle on his nose, 
as he sniffs and observe every tiny fall
and the metal strap of watch he wore reminded 
not just time, but how wisely it could be spent.

Again I got struck on the white clothes
he put on and 
What did it convey to each one of us?
still my bewilderment never subsided
Did he wear the softest of emotions?
Or simply it was a pretentious need of the hour?

The pride stride of walk he gave 
made me think of my school teacher 
who was exactly tall and lean 
a man who displayed not just courage,
but correctness in all his steps 
for his students to follow thereafter.

And every master should be so 
who could be followed in 
all day and light, shedding the darkness
and the paths he illuminated would 
take in all glory the generations and so was 
my Headmaster, who was lean and tall!

And yet he was born again and again
as no death could take him away 
when a student is born within a teacher, 
a teacher lives eternally through his pupils
And none other but my Headmaster, 
who was lean and tall!

© Parvathy Ramachandran


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