À l’heure du tout à l’image et du buzz sans suite, «l’express» souhaite faire découvrir la plume de poètes, de chanteurs, d’écrivains et de tous ceux qui jettent leur âme sur le papier, et qui mettent en mots des réflexions profondes.

40 different personalities in each class you move in for teaching

They are there, tired, relieved, simply in rows sitting

Waiting, grumbling, yawning, in books following

The whiteboard filled, I explain

I am the teacher, one name, the same

While 40 pairs of eyes have 40 different names

I am their teacher!

Different names, with personalities varied

Mindsets diverse, all to my class carried

Their lives, their loves, their hatred, their qualms

I am the teacher who joins all the palms

All the lines, all the dots, their fate, every morn

I am the teacher!

Some love me, some hate me, some try to survive

Some want to bury me alive

As the letters, the words, the phrases, the sentences

Build their careers, their world, their life’s sentences

I am the teacher whose life rotates here in all tenses

I am the teacher!

Finally, the 40 and more faces reach 40 and more destinations

Some happy, others dejected, remains but the connection

When I took a hand, touched a heart, a mind opened

No one is left out unburdened

A candle is lit, faith gets enlightened

I am the teacher

I am the teacher who sculpts the rocks hardened

Until a man is shaped, a thank you card is made

When in a random place, I hear “He Miss”

I feel I have been by God graced

Yesterday, today and forever

I remain their teacher.

Bio

Dr Anita Aujayeb.

A long-standing educator, now teaching at tertiary level, she has authored several books in all genres: literature, novels, stories, travelogues, poems and history.