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    Menal Jain
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    Got a call and I rushed back
    To that old gate
    Behind which we spent
    More than a decade

    Door after another
    And we came to the place
    Where the laughter can be heard
    Where we scratched our names

    The scribbled walls
    The crumbled boards
    The place where we made
    Promises that broke us all

    The swings swayed
    The balls waved
    Here we are but
    Why can’t we play?
    Aren’t those the empty grounds
    That no more wander you away?

    I still remember
    How we landed up here
    And how we fled
    Those countless smirks
    Now makes us feel weird

    Be sure to be in contact,
    Oh, you are busy!
    When can we meet guys?
    Now this drives me crazy

    Aren’t we supposed to be in contact?
    Shouldn’t we be calling?
    Why is it that your secrets
    Are no longer known by me?

    Earlier we never took permission
    To stay at each others’ home
    Or to eat up other’s lunch
    But here we are
    All formal, all abnormal

    Punishments that lasted a class
    Bunks we made in mass
    The school’s nostalgia
    By which we never can pass

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    Susan Katz
    Keymaster

    Thank you so much for sharing your poem and submitting it for consideration as Featured Poem of the week.  I particularly liked this line – “The place where we made
    Promises that broke us all” – powerful and touching and lovely poetry!  Have a very creative day, Susan

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