At the Announcement of a Holiday

a poem by Christuraj Alex

Children howl, like wolves and dogs,
Dumping rules, like dirt-dust logs;
The teacher’s cane rarely works,
The principal flares cause smirks!

Workers stand, pandas-perplexed,
Cattle crazing next, stand vexed;
Students some; Angels! Correct,
Others: Devils! See them wrecked!

Principal-tiger hurried,
Like sheep, each teacher worried;
Each angst of future buried,
Students leap like light-bodied!