The School Fees. Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

Final day of school fees
A difficult day for the schoolboy
Whose parents in poverty
Unable to pay the dues in time.

Nightmarish day, the fee day
No hope of payment in time
May be it a final day
The final day of the school days
Non payment of fee, the reason

Hopes always rescues the humans
Hope on timely help of an uncle
The grand uncle of the boy
Promptly he requested for a help
Money, to pay the school fee.

A man of illiteracy was he
But, praiseworthy of knowledge always
Greatness in charity always shown
The grand old man opened his chest box
Asked the boy to take the money
To pay for the fee in time.

Slowly, with trembling hand he took
A ten Indian rupee note with care
Showed the beloved uncle and told
This, a ten rupee note I takes.

The grand uncle with happiness in eyes
Told him to study well and have a future
A bright future through education
May your motivation in best of spirits
Always offer a helping hand to others.
Not to surrender the ego in better sense.