Teacher,
I am a hit today
because of the hitting
that I had received from you
during my school days

those corrected me
those changed me, and
those made me think

just think now
how much you cared for me
and
how simple you made me understand
every complex thing
for the very first time

whatever it was
an atom,
a plant cell,
algebra, or
the world wars

amazing I say

teachers are the unsung heroes
whose pains we hardly feel
and
whose efforts we barely remember

but
could not we forget
their divine faces
till our end
in whose mould we were shaped
for the world to consume.

                               - Ariv.