From A Room, Very Dear To Me

                             I

We're sitted in benches, row,  soft yellow

The morning is wide, clear is the sky, even for tomorrow

Dumb was I, not speaking a word

I silently sit, alone, in one corner, unheard

The chit-chats I try to hear,

Sitting alone, but I have no fear

Voices high and low, sometimes sweet and slow.

Of English Department, Bodoland University

A place with no adversity

A closed rectangle shaped room

Jaundiced wall. Rose petals perfume.

Darkened boards, calligraphy white letters, chalk written,

Dustered half sentences, of English History of Britain.

The Lectern still waiting,

The great scholar. To do his lecturing.

Teach a lesson, of English literature and history, and poetry.

                             II

Room filled with peoples, from far and near

Dressed in Dokhnas, Suridars, Pants and Shirts, neat, and smart they appear

Together focused to one goal

Joining hands, to share and learn, heart and soul.

Bodo, Assamese, Rabha, Mising, and Koch

Hindu-Muslim-Christians, all we approach

A fix unity, even in diversity

We're one, the Department of English, in Bodoland University

                           III

There will be a time coming

When everyone here should be going

Back, from where they came, learned

To prepare and to face with what they have earned

One day, all will once miss this place

Which we do very close to our heart, embrace.

Our Department of English

One day in our life, we'll surely miss

And, I'll miss, those pair of eyes

Which I mutely notice

                             IV

I looked out for once through the glass window

I fixed my visions to the sky above and green fields below

Bulging clouds hovering in the sky

Clear blue, up above so high...

So high, The English department, we count on it

Very close to our heart, it do fit

We're family here, to learn and to love and to be friends

We're family here, joyfully we do, time we spends

Learning new ideas, new concepts

New philosophies we do accepts

We're family here. one and only one

We're happy here, to live, in happiness and have fun.

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Dedicated to all students of Department of English of Second Semester, Bodoland University, Session 2012.