Financial Aid
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Swing sets and sand castles
All tied as one memory
One single drop of rain was
All it took to make me smile
And now it takes a lifetime
To make me crack a grin
Maybe I'm too old for games and toys.
There was an evil stepmother named Tuition
Her daughters Loan and Debt were on a mission
My Fairy Scholarship broke the fall
And I met my Prince Degree at the ball
But when the clock struck 12 I lost ambition
I'm in love
In love with an America
That has raised me
so tenderly
who gave me
my innocent childhood,
my love for robots,
my passion to change to world.
And Yet
in lieu of a new administration,
america's young immigrants are facing a sort of... frustration.
through broken occasion and high school graduation,
by hell and high water and maturation,
She wakes up every day
Proud of what she's done
If only she truly knew
What has already begun
She always gets the grades
She always has the drive
If only she knew that her success
2016 sucked.
It started bad, got worse, and ended on an all time low.
Not for sympathy or epathy but just so you know,
not only has my mental health declined
but my motivation has flatlined.
All I NEED?
Is to breathe!
Where
Is the air?
Is it here?
Is it there?
There's no TIME
To unwind!
Where's this island
Does time stand
Still?
Lightning cracks ---
I sleep like a sailor all alone on rough seas
The night devils: they torment me
All alone in my lonely dreams
I dream I’ve made mistakes.
Now, ocean water overtakes
I am anxious.
Scared of the future, scared of failure change.
For the past three years,
I have gone to a college-
where my dad has worked for
over a decade—for free, basically.
I am...
but let's be real..
Should I sit around here waiting for everyone to hear the perfect life story of the college student striving to be a childhood education teacher?
I am.. almost there
But let's be real..
A mask for the task at hand
to find success and to be the best
to draw peace from a green light in uncertain darkness i have to put up a fight
although i know not where i'll land
Let’s do some math.
If I choose to dorm at XY Hall, the price will be 18k for both semesters combined.
But that's way too expensive.
Is anyone on the other side of this silent phone call?
Anticipation stirs even the seventh time I dailed your number.
My hope returns when I hear your voice and drops when I hear the pause in the same word.
Most people call it busy,
A constant movement,
A flutter in one direction
Get this:
You have no clue you're movin'
Caught in the crossroads
Two paths to choose
But some can't afford
Lalalala I don't know what to do really.
I don't know if to rhyme
I don't know if to squeeze
I don't know....that's something I frequent.
Science is my game
And the more I learn, the less I know.
“Your parents make too much money”, the government states and that’s the first thing wrong with financial aid
My parents make enough money to survive and pay bills but I’m not a rich kid who can pay so let’s be real
I need money for college
so to gain more knoledge
I think I'm pretty smart
Especially in the performing Arts
I need my college tuition
for intellectual ammunition
I need this to resolve
