NOT A CREATURE!

NOT A CREATURE!

 

Don’t look at us like creatures:

What drives you to cast a contemptuous glance at us?

We are the suppliers of knowledge to your children,

You might have got a similar from the elderly masters,

Both the immediate past and present legacies are least bothered,

Dehumanizing The educators and commercializing the contents go shoulder-to-shoulder,

Being abused foolishly for producing a learning culture,

Getting reduced into a worm for having imparted a generational structure!

 

Shut up! We aren’t a creature!

Certainly, we cannot be an entity,

Don’t want to be treated in that passion,

But the collective dignity of us is at stake,

Because of being expected to be fake,

In our name, the paper fillers have the power to make,

Those caterpillars are tuned to disrupt and break,

To which they are potentially keep awake!

 

My god! We mustn’t be approached as creatures!

Being dictated not to disobey the transitory designations,

Have been instructed to abide by the profitable loopholes,

Even a genuine refusal is turned into punishable offence,

The act of questioning is being perceived as irritable menace,

The caste mentality is secretively entertained to have fraction,

Not allowed to reveal the institutional coalition,

Advised to embrace quietness over the perpetrated distillation!

 

Nonsense! We don’t want to be a creature!

Allow us to act upon the values of the pages,

To be a guide, we are hurdled to cross humiliating stages,

Bothe the compound and the class walls do appear to be boiling cages,

Our mastery is monitored by the monsters in terms of wages,

Place of teaching is dissociated from being respectively religious,

As the periphery is getting academically centered to be erudite,

Therefore, indigestibly the fountainheads of learning are systematically jeopardized!

 

Dr. U. Mahendran.