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There are times

When I sit with my textbooks

Open.

History, political science, english

But I cannot study.

I just

Cannot.

I feel like writing pages

Practicing the rote-learnt contents

From my textbooks

For unlike you, Krishna

I fear exams.

There are times I want to write pages

And I only end up writing

Krishna.

They say

You affect my academics

Because you are the

Center of my universe.

Can they ever know

How untrue that is?

You are my universe.

Poor they, Krishna.