The First Batch I Taught

The first school
The first teacher
The first crush
The first board exam
The first heartbreak
The first day in college
Thr first date
The first kiss
The first job
The first paycheck
All the firsts are special
And so is the first class that I taught as a teacher
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The first class with them
The first exam together
The first results
and then the parting
It is more than a year now that I started teaching them and now while teaching the same content to new faces and minds they keep coming back to me.
The first dramatics performance
The first prize they bagged
All of it keeps coming back to me from nooks and corners of the school
The same old chapters and the same old lines
But how did they enact, from Macbeth to Sherlock Holmes
All of it keeps comimg back to me amidst new students in the same old classroom.
One year and how old do they look
From those tiny tots in the school bus coming back from the sports meet to the ones now struggling with the bear and the duck and the kangaroo.
Few have left the school and few the country
But they keep coming back to me time and again.