An Endearing Journey

Oh how those pale blue walls

The sweltering heat

The scorching Sun

Made me want to run away

To the comfortable boundaries

The familiarity of home.

An inimitable four years of your life, it would be

Or so they said

But all I could see

Were myriad insects galore

The enduring power-cuts

And so much more.

A confused teenager following the crowd

Was all I came in as

Expecting nothing much

But to get done with Engineering

And move back to a city

As soon as I would pass.

The world was waiting to be explored

A voyage left hanging

While I was stuck in a barren land

Amidst unfamiliar faces

Unnerving course load

And no place to go.

A bitter-sweet journey it has been

Which was triggered with

Getting shouted at by the Dean

And threatening to be thrown out

For the callousness

Of not signing a registration form.

The silliness in me had decided

That deliberating into Science

Was for the buffoon

That the next four years would be a vacation

For a job was assured

Being a BITSian.

The halls of ivy change you

I had heard

I couldn’t agree more

Having come a long way

From dozing off in the library

To dreaming of changing the world.