SCHOOL AGAIN

Two years into my college days,
I put together this simple rhyme
To tell you what my memory says -
I'll always cherish my school time

I wish, but know its all in vain,
I want to go to school again.


The recess time and canteen treat,
The endless chatter in the bus,
The cultural week and green house meet,
Homework, punishment and all that fuss.

Moments so innocent, simple and plain,
Remind me of my school again.


Uniform checks during assemblies,
Filing up for the march past drills,
The kabaddi* games during half-yearlies,
Tying the knot in the winter chills,

Today, at the risk of sounding insane,
I want those times at school again.


Whatever I am and I will be,
Teachers, friends, I owe it to you.
When in school, I wanted to flee,
I'll miss it so much I never knew.

Enjoy this time as much as you can,
You'll never get back to school again.


Today I want to be where I was,
When I wanted to be where I am.
Now I can answer without a pause
What I wish and who I am

Dear friends, I am Mehul Jain
And I wish to go to school again.

Adventures of an HTTP request

(This is a poem I wrote as part of my computer networks assignment. Yes! it was a graded course submission. Non-CS junta or CS junta until sophie year, you might not get the technical part of it. Enjoy it nevertheless.)

Bits and bits cut into blocks,
To serve my master firefox.
Into the network stack I jump,
And meet the officer TCPdump.

In good faith, it is I guess,
It chops me down with great finesse.
A cap and number it gives to all.
One by one, then, down we fall.

The journey ends, we don't know where.
To tell us comes the network layer.
How often life presents this thought,
The goal is clear but the path is not.

A friend in need is a friend indeed
The data link shows us the next lead,
"Bridges and routers you'll meet on your way,
If all goes well, then win you may."

Time has come for the journey of pride,
Or is it really a roller-coaster ride.
As oblivious as those helpless dopes,
We slide down the copper ropes.

If an enemy show up on the path,
Both will have to face the wrath.
Worse still, they mess up the cost,
Into the void you will be lost.

All hope and pray in my song,
I finally end my journey long.
Weeping for all my brothers that died.
Waiting until their clones arrived.

The twins of network and data link,
Find us all healthy and pink.
The numbers we had are not in vain,
TCP brings us together again.

The HTTP server is a step away,
What more do I need to say.
Now, as I have achieved my aim,
Generations to come will do the same.