Class Room

Besides that dark black square

Beneath that block wooden podium.

Stands that man, sayin something

Lecture he says, we say sarcasm.

This bright closed suffocating box

That you call ‘class room’

Is it a death chamber?

Or the place where we groom.

That man is equipped with ammunition,

He calls it chalk.

He wants us to follow

The footsteps he himself didn’t walk.

___________Ashutosh Bhardwaj.