Child labour

The backs ached

The shoulders swollen


Six big revision notes

Six big classwork notes

Two big homework notes

Six big test notes

Two big handwriting notes

Six text books big

Loads of assignments

Charts, activities

Files, sketch pens

Boxes, lunch, water.


Twenty five kilos at least

To be carried to and fro.


Study and study

To earn money later.

Democracy for elders

Autocracy for children.


Sitting for fourteen years

Health goes away running

Searching for hospitals

No time to play, to dance.

Children  become old ones

Worrying even in innocence.


Schools need play grounds

Apart from black boards.