High School Is Harder Than You Think
These fractions on the whiteboard
Cannot seem to hold my attention
I don’t mean to hoard
My willingness to learn, yet there always seems to be a big prevention
I want to learn, to become smart
But the hardest part of doing something is always the start
No matter how many scenarios you work through,
Tangents and circles will never be something that I do
How will discovering the perimeter of a triangle
Be what determines whether I overcome or I dangle
At the end of my life?
Test after test, it feels like I’m just a name and grade
Pressure’s getting to some of us now
Get a good test score, and your life is made
Slip up once and no one will know how
You managed to get kicked out
They’ll just know, that now you take a different route
To get to a different school
Students on tight-ropes, struggling to stay balanced
Fighting battles every day, just so they won’t be besieged
If by some lucky mishap, that you have talents
To handle the truckloads of homework and the less than reasonable expectations
Then good for you
If not, you should heed:
High school is harder than you think.