Mental Health Before School
Location
6 p.m.
Anxiety kills
I can’t go on anymore
I am not okay
8 p.m.
It is not stopping
I’m still crying and shaking
School is breaking me
9 p.m.
I’m finally calm
I just need to get some sleep
But school takes over
3 a.m.
My teacher won’t care,
I just have to do my work.
My hands are shaking
7 a.m.
“I couldn’t finish,
not with anxiety.”
“You get a zero.”
Now.
School's too hard on us
We need to help these students
It is time for change
If it was my choice
Students with anxiety
Would finally learn
They'd learn it's okay
Put health before your schoolwork
They will forgive you
In an ideal world
They would forgive these students
And not punish them