School and Beyond

School and Beyond

The nostalgia that strikes,

The memories that fright.

Those friends, those places, those people that made an impact,

Those walls, that food, that terror that made us fight back! 

School was how we started calling it, Alma Mater was how we left and walked past it.

The journey from young todlers to gorgeous young ladies, we sailed through it! 

Living through the sunshine of nursery rhymes and Disney walls,

Dancing in the rain of all those tough lessons and fights that surprised us all! 

Fighting makes a relationship grow, separation at times brings in the glow! 

New Jersey or L.A we had friends fly all ways, the bond that kept us tied, played the game!

Different colored shirts, different supports, that one last march past sure united us at last! 

An old friend, a new class, who knew strange things made a trip last! 

The field, the classroom, which were no bigger than stadiums to play in, had the most competitive spirits and people to believe in! 

Teachers are friends you're hesitant to make, but the one's that guide you all the way through; they shout, smile or just teach, each phase makes a lesson for you to carry in the land of white and blue!

4 and you ran a rat's race, meeting everybody new, yet clinging on to just a few; a class of 60, yet in the end you're 16 accompanied by just 6 your friends that stand true! 

Crazy, mental, girlie you're now used to it all, irritated and annoyed by the sound of that seems like a knoll;

You leave it and crave for it, that innocence, that childishness that they call immaturity, is you longing for that drum that is reminiscent of school in you!

Orange juice, sharades, crazy ball and what not, playing tricks or throwing around chalk in class; powltry was how it sounded when we heard it first to realize that it actually meant poultry that made us pass :-p

Short, tall, cute, you've seen a set of them all, but the noise they all make is equally an alarm; entertainment of absolutely any sort, an add, a rap, a song, it's all ready, all you have to do is get the bulliten board ready! 

Christmas with a lit up path, Jesus was being welcomed and we had tart;

Santa, chocolates, party farewell,

December the store of it all, a season of bliss, tears and reverence too! 

12 years! Wow now that was a lot, to make 11 attachments,

With the success of 2 badges yet the biggest badge, lapels and a sash  that became a dream turning to be a failure out of which you never moved!

Standing again, at and end, yet holding strong to the values that we've dug deep all along; academics bound with virtue, we proudly had wisdom too!

We knew it was not goodbye,  it was the beginning to our roller coaster ride! 

No teachers, no rules, no guidelines to follow and stand true, the test was to soar high, with each other to hold and be by! 

Loyalty we had, service we paid, yet left with two questions that gives us no room to sway......

Did we do it all right? Did we live a life worth that time?