Less than 75%

You will not be allowed five minutes after I do, Enter you May but no attendance For I warn you-your attendance is less than 75% For attendance I make no exception.

You must have taken a bath today while your room-mate waited out, You rushed for college, for he wouldnt give attendance Missed your breakfast, like every one of us No one knew as your finger slipped, with which what all will slip And as you slipped-silence crept, and everyone is left tight lipped

You must have dreams I am sure -you must have planned for burnout that night You must have been to Mangalore sometimes, For you were one of us

Who knew you were rushing for that last bus And that bus was your last journey The reason that made you rush Is so baseless and unnecessary I have hung from that bus-and as it turns so carelessly Those tears couldve been my mother's, and this loss my familys agony

A helpless sigh blocks my speech, as everyone mourns You died in this very campus, how anyone will ever walk The place you fell, M I T fell, that i.c turn-that deadly turn

Just a sigh-a helpless silent scream-each heart shouts Why you had to die? Why you had to fall? The morning you succumbed was so exceptionally calm A torrent washed away every hope your mother knitted which was you A quagmire swallowed the very life from your fathers soul May you rest in peace; I couldve been where you are

You will not be allowed five minutes after I do, Enter you may but no attendance For I warn you-your attendance is less than 75% For attendance I make no exception.

These words echo as I ponder, why you risked your life They said you could have been ready early, I ask why being late is fatal? They said attend 75% compulsorily, I ask where empathy is I expect no sympathy, but cant they even understand Rules are for students not students for rules They read out a printed condolence speech and said their hearts cried I wonder crying hearts saying, we arent responsible its your fault Oh Ishan! That 75% made you hang, for a close fisted cold systems demand You will not be allowed five minutes after I do, Enter you May but no attendance For I warn you-your attendance is less than 75% For attendance I make no exception.