In Memory of Dead Classmates (2012)

You are the ones who never grew old

Taken before the compromises

And before the gladness.

We left you behind

In a world without the Web,

Before Facebook and Street View,

Before McDonald’s took us over,

Before 26/11. 

Did you ever feel that we didn’t care?

We were too busy being young

And clueless.

But now, at the half-way mark,

When we look back at our journeys,

We hope you found

Somewhere, somehow,

The lives you should have had,

The good, the indifferent and also the bad.