This is a heart-rending tribute to futures abruptly cut short. The poem introduces students with firm plans: one to write “Dr.” before her name, another to save a life before age 25. This certainty is shattered by the news of a plane crash at BJ Medical College.
The students were planning their next surgery or residency, not knowing their lives were about to end. The piece calls the event a “massacre of becoming” and a “sky that forgot” where to fall. It charges those who remain to become “the keeper of theirs,” letting every saved life whisper the names of the lost.
- The students in the canteen planning their next surgery,
- The students in the hostel planning their residency,
- Over 100 students planning on saving other lives,
- not knowing theirs was about to to end