Many girls, I have met
To them, I owe a debt
No girl, I can really forget
Now, memories, I get.

In a co-education school
I started learning love's rule
Because of girls, I was not a fool
And I became not a stiff mule.

In the class, I studied really very well
My mother tongue, I could nicely spell
Answers for questions, I could tell
I hated the day's ending bell

In History, I could excellently excel
Then, in science, I acquired nice skill
Schooling was not at all to me hell
I came out of a boy's shyness-shell

In classes, students were often shuffled
By girls' absence, I was at times baffled
Still, I would manage to be unruffled
As by other girls, heart would be filled

As my behavior was very decent
My company, no girl did resent
Teachers liked my being present
Every moment was to me a present

Eighth standard was the last class
Then I lost touch with every lass
In a boys-school, I became an ass
My happiness was brittle like glass

With girls, I lost all the connection
There was none to show affection
I lost girls' kind and warm reception
Slowly I faced dejection's eruption

I made a desperate chase
I followed all shrewd ways
Love of a girl did not surface
Only rejection, I started to face

My desperation gathered momentum
I scored only zero, not centum
My hope was moulted like autumn
My mood reached the rock-bottom

I would try to have a contact
But a girl would fear my act
She would be afraid much infact
So never at all developed love-pact

Because of a girl, I became a poet
But I could not express to her yet
I could not make her fall in my love-net
My ignorance in English created regret

My first song for her I made
At age 17, this talent I displayed
For her love, to all Gods, I prayed
But, in my case, Gods never obeyed

That was my self-assumed loss
If I had seriously tried to pass
I might have mastered love-laws
But, God arranged for lots of flaws

A girl can make a boy a royal king
Or to a pauper level, she can bring
She can create for him a lovely spring
Or reduce him to a worthless thing

If a girl offers concrete support
One can defeat God in His court
If her love, a girl does not report
Soul will be unsafe in body-port

If her love, a girl kindly offers
Become giants, even those loafers
If her love, a girl willingly confers
Even with God, one boldly differs

If a girl opens her merciful heart
She can make you excel in art
If a girl says you are very smart
Your life-span will never be short

If a girl plans to associate
Herself with you as her mate
You can then easily win fate
To become in life very great

If her rejection she firmly states
For you, hell will open its gates
Heaven will cancel all its rebates
Against you, fate will have debates.

M V VENKATARAMAN