The Green Tree

(The corridor, the corner and the tree are all a part of the school we are leaving this year...it is homage to the times left behind and a welcome to a new beginning).

                                                
The branches were bare

The leaves had long blown down

It was sere, dead, that tree

That once green tree at the corner of the corridor

Ravages of time ah!

All the laughter and rhyme,

It had veiled them all, that tree.

Ecstasy, reverberations of joy

Pandemonium created

On that yellow flooded corridor

Near the once green tree at the corner of the corridor

Transparencies of emotions now

Retaliation of memories

Free from that chaperon bare.

Separation and melancholy

Autumn, winter and agony...

Age has brought us far from that corner,

And the once green tree at that corner....

 Tears well up, you look down

Your steps recede to the exit

And the trodden leaves stick to your feet

They hinder your walk

Despondency strikes,

Will that ever bloom again?

The once green tree at that corner?

....you come back to see

You run through the beaten grounds

Slide through the soaked ways

Climb the petty steps

Wind of reminiscences

Voices haunt, they whisper

Our once green tree at the corner of that corridor...

You reach the place

Panting, out of breath...

And then exhilaration fills!

Foliage new born!

The same sweet...sweet smell,

Charioting feelings so pristine

Amidst a green tree at the corner of this corridor

You comprehend then, elated

It was waiting and will always do

For your head turned high

For your unchartered feet

For the spring... and for your smile

And so it has bloomed again

This green tree at the corner of this corridor

You look up...

Threshold of a new beginning

And see the golden light

On the evergreen tree at the corner of that corridor...