Poetry Slam: Education
Location
I speak, my natural flaws
Aside
To the Past, Present and Future
Great minds catching every green light
Are ran, soon swept out of sight
We carry on, all day long
Stop sign after red light
One day leads to another
And soon leads to Present.
I’d tell you more about it
But I don’t know much about it.
All children, and adults alike,
Live in a fairy tale
Where proper grammar never matters, and
An address is no longer for family letters,
But for college pamphlets and army recruits
You do not recall giving information to
Innocent life algebra
That will help us pay the bills
Is simply overlooked,
But the FCAT you dare not fail
And science? It’s a joke
Sheldon Cooper is out for blood
It’s now just a tangent
We slide it under the rug
And…
All the little minds do is
Lay their disciplinary forms out on their desk, next to
Their Starbucks and their
iPhones
But the future dares not text
You HAVE to be the change, they say,
No real plead in their voice
All this pressure will have gone away
They talk so much about their unbearable pain
To this generation, the future looks insane
Who really has all the shoulder weight?
I could be that
Yes! The future I could change
If one with such flaws would set them aside
I have to have guidance
To one day give, and be Wright
Good riddance!
With words to say
No one cares how much you know
Until they know how much you care
If Past constantly tell us they should have stayed home,
For future to say the same is only fair
One step at a time…
No, you’re focusing on the wrong things
You see, we live in a world where
Colleges only waive football players
And the less-than-rare AP class takers
If you take regular because it’s hard to keep up
Past does not care one bit
Future, good luck!
The stress was taken away from me
Once a real educator came in me in honesty:
No one is here to help you.
Though life is about growing to think
For yourself
The little guidance provided
Is like a nation divided
And will always have its favorites.