The Things I’ll Miss About School

The things I’ll miss about school
 Are things I can and cannot describe
 Is the fact that it helped me constantly try
 It gave me a lot of firsts and even a few lasts
 But there wasn’t a time where I could deny having a blast
 From taking the same route for the past fourteen years
 To creating a family from those I originally called my peers
 School has given me several things to remember
 Be it the annual concerts in December
 Or even the several times, I lost my temper
 Homework. Deadlines. Submit it by 12!
 What do I after ISC? Only time will tell?
 Miss can I please go to the sick room, I’m really not well!
 Those were some of the things you’ve said/heard again and again
 And by now, our excuses are a hard 10/10
 But school wouldn’t be school without all the politics during inter-house competitions
 Or the scary teachers that wanted all the work done with great precision
 It would be easy to say that school has been a lot of fun
 That at the end of the day, it made us all- one
 But it’s the tiniest things
 Like the kid in assembly that really couldn’t sing
 Or the time you hilariously slipped and fell
 Or the time you missed your best friend in class because she was at home, unwell
 It would be wrong to say that school had only ups and no downs
 There were definitely a lot of frowns
 It is easy to be inspired in a place where brilliant personalities were born
 Where the strongest thing is the Banyan Tree that for 170 years, held on
 So much has changed since we entered this institution, crying, not knowing what lay in our fate
 And 14 years later, we’ll be doing the same, except this time, as we leave the gate
 The things I’ll miss about school are the last assemblies
 Not knowing how or when, this just became a part of my memories.

– Zara Humranwala