My university days
The last class finished
The course was over
The final day farewell
Well cried and rejoiced.
The vacation commenced
But we refused to accept!!
We ‘Three Musketeers’
Lingered on and on
For many days to come
We three friends
Like ghosts hovering
Around empty campus
Inside the vacant rooms
Sat on the benches
Laughing and eating
Though sad in our hearts
Searching for all that was
Days later, vacation over
Once again, we got together
Same campus, same rooms
But what we observed soon
Was some hustle and bustle
Whole lot of fresh new people
New students happy and chirpy
Their introductory Open Day
Their freshers’ Welcome Party
The roles had been transferred
The place was taken over
We could not be in denial.
“The place is all theirs
What are we doing here?”
“We can no more linger on
We are students dethroned”
Demoted to be ex-students
Years down the track
Till now we are ex-students
the respected Alumnus.
But that’s not a problem
Alumni do have permission
to linger on, and linger on.
In their minds and memories
they can forever linger on.
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This poem is about how we girls felt in those days, how we lingered on…but I don’t dwell on my university, college or school days anymore. These days, coming across heaps of very old time friends on social media gives us sudden elation followed by confusion and mixed feelings – how much and how long to live in our younger days? It’s quite an effort to assimilate them in your current life hence a balance is needed.
As P G Wodehouse said, “Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them”
Do you also have some memories about campus days? Please share as it’s always fun to remember and read about youthful times.
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Previously in response to The Daily Prompt: Linger
“Tell us about times in which you linger – when you don’t want an event, or a day to end. What is it you love about these times? Why do you wish you could linger forever?”
Also for Writer’s Quote Wednesday #WQWWC This week’s theme is Memories
Memories of college life are precious.
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Sure they are. Thanks for sharing your views!
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Campus life is great fun while it lasts, alka, and a perennial source of nostalgia thereafter. As the song goes, ‘those were the days my love, we thought would never end…’
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Yes, that’s true. But when living those times we are not aware they are fun times. Looking back makes us realize they were carefree days. Actually, we don’t always see them as purely good times but simply gone times, a feeling that time once gone can never come back. Was it just an illusion? Not really because, even years later, whatever we are today is because of bygone times. It’s all interconnected.
Thanks for the lyrics of this lovely song, and also for sharing your valuable thoughts!
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This is fabulous! I love my memories from college also. Everything was so fresh and new. Well done! ❤
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Thanks Colleen! I’m sure you do, as it is all very fresh during student life, with full life ahead 🙂 and still hopeful about our little dreams.
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