Conflict - 4 : Teaching : Diligence and Contemplation
C O N F L I C T
A series of Poems by Mr Damian Robin
4 : TEACHING — DILIGENCE AND CONTEMPLATION
FOR MARGARET TREY. TO ACCOMMODATE HER SCHOOL AND THE PUPILS THERE, DR TREY TOOK ON A LARGER WORKLOAD THAN WAS NORMAL FOR A TEACHER
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Time’s tabled schedules rise up passed your neck
acutely angled to the keyboard’s spec.
Your eyes lockdown then face up to the screen.
Your thoughts now follow through this up down trek
to creeks of shoulder muscles and between.
The starlight of the spinning universe
cascades throughout your mind
a scarlet vision that your thoughts rehearse
above, beside, behind
this necessary screen time, cramped and terse.
You focus on your students’ needs, don’t cry,
clamped onto duty’s consequential sky,
and feel how great your higher soul behaves,
as though your shoulder blades were wings to fly
to sages’ counsel deep in heavens’ caves.