Trade Down
Can you not see that we don't want to be here?
There are groans and snores, can you not hear?
I don't understand this.
Ask one of your peers for assistance.
Is your reply.
Can't you see they don't understand either?
This is your job don't
Sit there
Degrade us
Yell when we don't understand,
Tell us we are nothing and
there is no hope for our dreams.
The anxiety, the stress.
It settles along my spine,
my shoulders.
I'm an empty pen,
you've consumed my time,
wasted my creativity,
and made me cry.
I came hopeful and ready to learn
the arts have died
no more Crayola crayons
and nap times.
We traded that for
Algebra, geometry,
N+O=NO, gerunds, appositives,
equations
It's all tangling together
and no time to untangle.