Everyone gains by winning the game I have gained enormously by losing it

My positive and aggressive academic posture,

As revealed by Teaching, writing and articulating,

In my own inimitable style,

Has invited only ridicule at the coffee club

Do you know why?

You have never tasted the flavor and glory of Academics

In your entire academic life.

So, you feel very small and dwarfed.

In our presence ,

Elevated to an exalted position,

But only educated beyond your intelligence,

There has been always a savage violence

And sadistic streak in your molecules of brain

To molest academic integrity and efficiency.

I want to play a delightful academic game

But you always invoke and invent new rules,

To transform this game into a pure political sport.

Small wonder then you make me out,

Rather effortlessly when I excel in batting.

Everyone gains by winning the game

I have gained enormously by losing it

At your hand. Yes. Gentleman !

The fruitful fallout of your clownish game

Is birth of my poetry.

You can neither be happy

Nor feel well all the time,

Just because you are born rich

Or a fortune has smiled on you

The exalted position that you occupy here

Was not meant for doing mischief

And blunt the academic brilliance of

Your co-workers,

Who are good workers too.

By showering booms to those

Who had displayed a remarkable immediate loyalty

And stunning the career graph of

Those who all along practiced only work ethics

You’re indeed ushering in a paradigm shift here

“Don’t work, Praise my glory.

Write books for me, though shall not suffer

I will guarantee your career lift.”