by Dr. Sambhu R
It was on a day the rain spent
an unusually long time
uncording the giant parcel of the sky
that I learnt the classroom I sat in
was the most dangerous place on earth.
For the first time ever the piece
of chalk in our teacher’s hands
ceased to be what it was
and became a comet blazing forth
through the semi-darkness of my mind.
Her words first heard, then seen and felt,
widened out into a blaze
of auroral light whose changing colours
showed in sharp contrast the dullness
of all I believed to be tinted black and white.
But I remember nothing of what
she taught except the danger it led me
boldly through; of how her lessons
took me to a precipice and left
me there, to learn to fall by myself.
About the Author
Sambhu R hails from Kayamkulam located in the district of Alappuzha in Kerala. He writes both in English and Malayalam. He is employed as Assistant Professor of English at N.S.S. College, Pandalam. Vavval Manushyanum Komaliyum published by Pappathi Pusthakangal in 2019 was his first book of poems in Malayalam. His poems in English have appeared in Wild Court, Bombay Literary Journal, Muse India, Borderless Journal, Setu and Shot Glass Journal, among others.
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