dear school. why did you lie to me? all those years you promised i would thank you for teaching me the ways of the real world but when i look in the mirror i can barely thank myself for what i've endured holding my breath one exam to the next daily grades quiz grades major grades midterms finals each one of these terms stack on my shoulders making it heavier and heavier causing me to have to catch my breath faster you taught me how to fit in not how to stand out you taught me how to memorize not actually understand the material you taught me how to follow rules not how to break them and how to do good in the world you taught me how to reproduce what has already been done not how to create something original you taught me how to stay within the lines not how to be my own person so. dear school, why are you just a big, fat lie that leaves me sobbing uncontrollably because of anxiety and tension?
hey guys!!!! thanks for reading this poem <33 it is the second to last day of end-of-semester-break, but i wanted to write this today before school started cramming homework again :))
