Angels In Disguise Poem by Malabika Ray Choudhury

today morning I became a kindergarten teacher,
a little boy welcomed me at the door, and gave me a big hug,
he was the greeter!
my heart just melted!

LEGO, and play dough, blocks, and water,
they were playing at centres,
I became a kid with them,
and started drawing hilarious pictures!

two little girls drew their moms
in lovely colourful ravishing dresses,
another one wished to draw gorgeous flowers,
holding pencil was a challenge!

many of them were budding artists -
crayons, and pencils, paints and brushes
brought Nature to life!
their creativity was endless!

some were writers,
dealing with horrifying dragons, bone-chilling monsters and petrifying dinos,
and definitely elegant princesses,
for them, imagination never stops!

a lot of boys (wish there were some girls!) , dealt with building and fixing cars, and towers, planes and airports,
future builders and engineers,
I gazed at them with awe,
and visualized our promising future!

play-doughs were getting into shapes -
rolled, and sliced, chopped and moulded
into balls, and pizzas,
and stars, and SNAKES.


leave them as they are,
our precious little angels in disguise,
Innocence is what we see, and
a world full of dreams in those luminous eyes!