Nov 2018
Why I need a LABEL
Am I so incapable?
Does certificates of mine
Define me better, than I?
Everybody wants me to score
Each time unsatisfied, quest for more
Can’t I live without that LABEL
That I’m useful even without that paper.
My teachers, my friends
My parents, and even myself
They ask me all to perform
Is that all my life is meant for, for all?
I’m under pressure to get good marks
Even I’m trying very hard
But that one question again comes to my mind
Am I running for a ‘really’ better life?
Can’t we live in a world of peace
Without any struggle, in the world of fantasies
Even in my dreams, people come and shout
‘You Lazy Boy, Stop writing, and go to work ‘now’’.
I do need a LABEL- to live in actual world of ‘chaos’
To sustain and survive, don’t know how?
We’ve to work on set standards;
Maybe, just to become compatible.
-Munyatam Bhardwaj
-XII-B
(Montfort School)
Am I so incapable?
Does certificates of mine
Define me better, than I?
Everybody wants me to score
Each time unsatisfied, quest for more
Can’t I live without that LABEL
That I’m useful even without that paper.
My teachers, my friends
My parents, and even myself
They ask me all to perform
Is that all my life is meant for, for all?
I’m under pressure to get good marks
Even I’m trying very hard
But that one question again comes to my mind
Am I running for a ‘really’ better life?
Can’t we live in a world of peace
Without any struggle, in the world of fantasies
Even in my dreams, people come and shout
‘You Lazy Boy, Stop writing, and go to work ‘now’’.
I do need a LABEL- to live in actual world of ‘chaos’
To sustain and survive, don’t know how?
We’ve to work on set standards;
Maybe, just to become compatible.
-Munyatam Bhardwaj
-XII-B
(Montfort School)
This poem was written by me when I was in 12th class. Never before I felt that pressure from surrounding to perform. It was like my life was hypothetically put at stake and would fail if I didn't succeed to get good marks.
Although I didn't liked this culture, but since it is how the society works, I had to comply with it. And gradually adapt to it.
What I realised was many a times it is not just our aggression that makes us hate the trends around us, but also sometimes it is our laziness which provokes us and we feel rejoiced after criticising the system and hide the truth from ourselves.
Although I didn't liked this culture, but since it is how the society works, I had to comply with it. And gradually adapt to it.
What I realised was many a times it is not just our aggression that makes us hate the trends around us, but also sometimes it is our laziness which provokes us and we feel rejoiced after criticising the system and hide the truth from ourselves.
