Two Sections A & D Poem by santhana louis

I was a dull boy, in studies
during high school days
In 9th standard - D section - where
below average minds were only dumped

since, all my co-students
were also of same mold,
teachers used to be strict and harsh
still, we struggled to get even pass marks

Sections A and B, full of proud students
with an air of superiority, as intellectual breeds
they never mingled with the pollutants 'D'
the co-ed girls of our own class too
preferred only boys from the ‘bright sections'.

In quiz, Chess or inter-school meets
those veterans brought prizes and laurels
to the broad smile of our HM and teachers, while
we remained sidelined, as wastes & useless

after 25 years or so, I met my girl-classmate
in a car parking lot, with her family all around
proudly, she announced that her two sons are M.D.s
from the womb of ‘Section D' - two brilliant Medicine guys!

in turn, I gave my visiting card, Manager of a leading bank;
my daughters both are engineers, one is presently doing Ph.D in US

after a short chit- chat, they left.
Seated in my car, I just rewind,

TRUE - that ‘dull last bench', had not fared, initially, well
but, is now the spring-board for our wards to shine


Louis Santhana