University of Life

It is said that

in order to be a good poet

you need to spend fifty

years on this planet, but

written in the walls of life

is a lyric by an erratic teacher

that peeps out and gazes at destiny

sometimes, it shows its facet

to some at 20

Oxford and Harvard are said

to bring out the best in you, nevertheless

Shakespeare never went to any University

nor Milton learnt to read English till

his post school days

they took their exams while being in

the scrutiny of life

passed with flying colours and

turned into an evergreen scholar.

Someone asked me once,

“How did you win an author award at 22?”

to which I replied,

“Life nominated me for the merit.”