Poem for Youngsters
A Day’s Work
From campus dreams to office routine — can one rekindle a passion for change?
We all experience bitter realities after graduating from college and university life. We aren’t aware of life and how difficult it will be for us. That’s why I’m writing this poem that reflects every teenager's hardships in their own lives.
Another dawn bleeds through blinds, No classes wait for your sleepy mind. The alarm screams urgency now — Real-world calls, won’t take a vow Of patience for your restless soul, still dreaming.
This office chair is miles from campus green, Cubicles maze without end. How to mirror passion here within These memos, reports, cold calls without feeling?
The heart yearns for that college fire — Debates, dialogues that lifted higher, Ideas once flow free as breath. Now worries wake with you each dawn: Is this all? Is this the “real world” they warn?
Where is that bold, hungry youth? The one who knew college was not the truth — Rather than a gateway to grander things, Ideas you’d carry forth to remake the workings.
Can it be in files and meetings you must dwell And still, change the world? Time will tell… But know the fire always burns within. Carry embers into the office din.
Someday may kindle flames once more — If you feed the sparks and never doubt their power. This too shall pass, don’t lose your way. Brighter mornings await their day.
“This story is written by M Aslam Waheed. Follow me on LinkedIn, facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram.”
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