Change One Thing

The world is full of people

Who cannot afford time

It is a commodity

A priceless piece of mind

We are constrained and beaten

To the minutes and the hours

And the seconds and the days

We're caught up in irrelevance

A struggle that, in the end, will make no difference

I live in the city that never sleeps

With red eyes and deadlines

I struggle to keep

My eyes open when I can

But everything is blurry

Moving too fast, but often it slows

It seems that no one has a New York minute

To ask how time flows

It's like everything is important, next to everyone else's goals

I go to a school

Where teachers and students

Do not believe in lying down in a bed

For a decent 8 hours, comatose and in a trance

Dreaming is illegal

Drinking coffee sets you free

And caffeine pills and energy drinks which make your kidneys bleed

Due date, Turnitin.com, too late

Not an IB student or a diploma candidate

If I could change one thing

It would be time itself

Because 24 hours was never enough to help

I hate staying up for assignments

Waiting for my brain to melt

Days, weeks, years and decades

Centuries of pointless charades

I’m tired of it and refuse to be awake

It will take time itself to get my point made