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AS I AM

So what if I have squint

Or money I don’t mint

I know my eyes blink a lot

Or most of the tasks I just forgot

 

What is the matter if I am a buffoon

Or my life is much more doomed

I know I hue and cry

Or talking to chicks I’m a bit too shy

 

To those who understand

I extend my hand

To the doubtful I demand

take me as I am

 

not under your control

I know where I stand

Won’t change to suit your plan

Take me as I am

 

From childhood I did what you said

From waking up to going to bed

I am sorry I missed that one mark for DU'

Now don’t look down at me in dread

 

I deserve that seat more than that OBC" guy

Or the seat that rich dad did buy

Sorry I could not prove your expectation

Courses are full, don’t worry ill do animation

 

I’m facing blasphemies of life

I’ll write satires on Modi or the wife

 

To those who understand

I extend my hand

To the doubtful I demand

take me as I am

 

not under your control

I know where I stand

Won’t change to suit your plan

Take me as I am

 

Sitting in the dark I forget,

Sweetness, sourness is all I get

Everyday having the bitter pills of fate

Missing the time we chatted till late

 

We bunked periods to find solitary places to sit

You asked me to love you and I did

Traded my emotions for a counteract to commit

Now you know my faults and have gone so far

 

Your confessions in my name

Now just give you fame

What all we dreamt now and then

Now you have got someone to blame

 

To those who understand

I extend my hand

To the doubtful I demand

take me as I am

 

not under your control

I know where I stand

Won’t change to suit your plan

Take me as I am

 

I keep my secrets in my skin

What all I did with innocence and ignorance

Now dealing with my sins

 

What all is left of me is in a cage

To protect death from dying from my carnage

 

I have done much, don’t expect anything from my life

Let me be me, done enough truce and strife

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Written by
goutam-raveri
Published
Oct 9, 2014
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61·391
Notes

'DU [ Delhi University] is one of the most prestigious universities in India

"OBC refers to Other Backward Classes, as there are a fixed number of seats reserved for them in the colledges

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#agony#hardwork#socialsatire
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