Homework

9:30 at night i draft an essay

can’t focus

revise it anyway 

change subject

i lay in my bed solving math equations, barely awake

can’t focus

i’ve been at it for hours and i’m so tired of doing work for the sake of work

i throw my head back, lay flat, and question the questions 

“what is your purpose?”

these lessons are supposed to give me insight and foresight 

but here i sit with nosight

it's 12:00

I can’t see straight from exhaustion 

the ink on the page isn’t getting me payed quite the opposite

i lose sleep, i lose time, i lose myself in the process because i 

can’t focus and im not like everyone else…but they say i should be

can’t focus in a class where teachers have the audacity to tell me that going to college for business, science, and math is the only way to make it in this life when i want to be a music major

can’t focus because they say sitting in class at a desk is better than sitting on your ass

even though in reality you’re training me to sit on my ass for the rest of my life 

at a desk 

9-5

6 days 

in a daze 

20-60 an hour for a career as a slave 

to the system

where my boss is a jerk

all i do is work

my kids skip class

my wife looks me in the face and laughs 

because I’m a complete joke

I’m 3 kinds of broke

drowning in a debt that everyone said college would pay for

I don’t remember the last time i spent quality time with my children

and my neglected wife found a man at the grocery store who is everything i used to be, said i'd be, and more

but bills cover my floor so she walks out the door

I’m at war

with myself

with this life

with no help

The American Dream 

                                  Right?

Well let me go Left

school should be a tool used to better myself And teach me how to make a living 

so why not Left?

i should Sit at a Desk in class to learn how to Stand up in Life

so why not Left?

instead of preparing for the final EOC i should be prepared for life like ADT

Education should be security and creativity 

not robbery

and assimilation

promote not just financial wealth but provide health for your mind and body 

 and supplement your soul and god given talents

education should up lift me to a realm and state of living i didn’t know i could achieve

yet you call me naive?

excuse me?

my bad, forgive me for thinking that a system of educators would educate.

if you say im wrong then you can be Right

and thats okay with me…

but know that i’d rather be Left with my dream

than right with your Reality