In memory of Teacher T

The awful thing about growing old is, you die
The awful thing about life is, you've to summarise it
The awful thing about an apostrophe is, you never know when it is diacritic
The awful thing about memory is, most of it is italicised
Unreliably

Teacher T
Was no voluntarist
She made minds
In Marathi rather than French
Provided tales of grammatical technique
Collected wrist watches (a new one per day)
That should come handy as time ticks
In eternity