You Know You Hate Anatomy When…..

 Entered Med school, thinking it’s a mighty warship in Star Trek,

Then you notice it’s like an iceberg-crashed, Titanic deck,

Dreamt of being a kick-ass Doc, with a steth around the neck,

Anatomy, the first hurdle-which made you go “What the heck!”

                                                                             
You feel,

 Cranial nerves- their path, eccentric than a drunkard-driven express train,

 Sulci or Gyri are better seen in your bowl of noodle, than the brain

Extensor Carpi Radialis Longus did seem dead-pan long,

Until Levator Labii Superioris Aleque Nasi, then did come along.

You feel every Tom, Dick and Harry has his self-named bone fracture,

You forget facts faster than you say ‘Volkmann’s contracture’

 The histology slides, all  resemble molten cherry and grape sundae!
Surface Marking- you look as if a monkey with paint-brush, any day!

   Naming a fascia in a thousand ways, is an anatomist's greatest must,

And making Neuro Anat diagrams, which look like polka dots on pizza crusts.

  You wish to drown the dead Chaurasia, in a tank of formalin,

Or to strangle Henry Gray with an Ileum, and then grin!

       Then at the Viva-the crossroad between heaven and hell,

       A glance at that examiner, and ‘Halleluiah!” you yell!

Nostalgia

Do you remember??

The squeaky, tiny tricycle you rode around your room,

The little Lego Blocks which made your architecture bloom,

A high-decibel police car which went ‘Vroom Vroom”!!

Or the turn-a-key monkey who played the drum all day??

Don’t you think we’ve indeed walked a long, long way??

The times when,

You loved ‘123’, not knowing what maths had in store for you,

You knew that a cock crows, a crow caws and a cow does moo!

The head, chest, hands and legs was the only Anatomy you knew,

Or when we believed North Pole was where Elves and Santa stay??

Don’t you think we’ve indeed walked a long, long way??

Or the times when,

You loved Pokémon, until you couldn’t count them anymore, 
  Road rash, Mario and Dave made your fingers go all sore,

The capes, the masks and comics- you loved the superhero lore,

Or when you wondered if you’re simply too grown to play??

Don’t you think we’ve indeed walked a long, long way??

And also,

Kicking the football in the rain and even wishing for some more,

The lump in your throat when you saw the cute girl next door,

The insane talks with buddies, laughing, rolling on the floor,

Or the exam-eve, midnight toil-the eleventh hour fray??

Don’t you think we’ve indeed walked a long, long way??

Time’s a stupid bitch that waits for none, they say,

Before you even know it, your hair may start to grey!

Yet, we refrain to ditch the past and barely walk away…

Shit!! We’ve indeed walked a long, long way!!

An Invisible Existence

Amidst a thousand mirrors, petrified I stand.

Yet, why I see no myself, I fail to understand...

A run down the beach, beside a gleaming twilight sea,

Yet, why I see no footprints, reach back at me??

Lively, livid human silhouettes, which walk across the lane,

Yet, among the crowds, I seem a ghost gone insane.

Faces – grinning, laughing, smiling; be it sunshine or the rain,

Yet, why no one casts a glance upon my pain??

How I love the rains! They hide the tear in my eye…

And I love the dark, which shields the fear I deny…

I feel dead. Wait, is it any different- I live or I die??

Now, shall I fight? Wait, it’s too futile a fight…

I crave for the warmth of the love I once had,

How I miss those divine moments- crazy and mad!

Cast in this mist of loneliness, how long can I last?

Yet, I live the today, each moment, re-living the past…