THE BACK-HOLDER

HIDING IN SOME HOSTEL ROOM WITH PAIN,
FACING HUMILIATION AND STRAIN,
WONDERING WHERE HE LOST TRACK,
HE HAS SOME PAPERS THAT ARE BACK.


UNCLES' DESCEND FROM HOME,
ALL THAT OUR WARD DID HERE IS ROAM,
HE HAS SIXTEEN PAPERS TO CLEAR,
FELLOW SHOWS NO SIGN OF FEAR.


HIS FATHER HAS DEVELOPED PRESSURE,
MOTHER HAS INCREASED SUGAR,
ONLY HIS SISTER SUPPORTS HIM,
SAYING HE ALWAYS "FROTHS AT THE BRIM".


THE STEWARD DOES NOT WANT THEM AROUND,
THE WARDEN PROWLS AT THEM LIKE A HOUND,
RESIGNED TO A SORRY FATE,
REPULSION AT EVERY GATE.


IT COULD BE THE SYSTEM'S FAULT,
THAT THEY ARE IN A HALT,
OR ,THEY COULD HAVE BEEN SMITTEN,
IN THIS TENDER AGE OF FUN.


ALL OF THEM MAKE A GANG,
WE HAVE TO ACT AND BANG,
THEY UNDERTAKE SOME JOINT STUDY,
WITH RENEWED STRATEGY.


THEY ALL FILL THE FORM,
FOR THE IMPENDING EXAM,
EXUDING RARE GRACE AND FAITH,
THOUGH THEY ARE LATE.

IN THE EXAM HALL THEY WINK AT EACH OTHER,
WHAT WE ALL STUDIED IS HERE,
BEING CAREFUL AT EVERY STEP,
IT MIGHT BE THE LAST CHANCE TO PEP.


IN THE END HUG EACH-OTHER TO DEPART,
ALL OF THEM WITH A HEAVY HEART,
THEY ALL FACED A RARE PLIGHT,
AND  INVOLVED IN A PRICELESS FIGHT.


JUNIORS CALL THEIR HOME TO TELL,
THEY ARE OUT OF HELL,
THEY HAVE CLEARED THEM ALL,
THOUGH THE CHALLENGE LOOKED TALL.


BACK IS NOT A BAD WORD,.
MANY A DISTINGUISHED ARE HIDDEN IN THIS HERD,
LATE IN LIFE THEY MIGHT BLOOM,
NOW ,THOUGH THEY ARE IN A DOOM,
SUPPORT THEM  HANDLE THE BACK-LOG,
NEVER TREAT THEM AS A HOG,
THEY ARE SOMEBODY'S CHILDREN TOO,
ONE DAY CAME HERE FROM  'OUT OF THE BLUE',
GIVE THEM A LEGITIMATE PLACE TO STAY,
WHEN THEY ARE IN THIS FRAY,
NEVER TREAT THEM AS A PREY,
OVER SOME QUIRK OF FATE,
THEY ENTERED THE NIT(REC) GATE,
FOR THOUGH THEY NOW SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE,
COULD SOME DAY BECOME SOCIETY'S PRIDE.