School can be tolerable
On days when you play games in the classroom
But not when you have to learn a multitude of subjects that have little relevance
Those are the worst days of all

New ideas being thrown at you
Day after day
Waking up to the same buzzing of an alarm clock when 7:00 a.m. strikes
Climbing out of bed feels like torture

I endure the long monotonous walk down to my car
Stumbling like a zombie because I’m not fully awake yet
Windows so foggy or icy, I can barely see through
I suffer through this boring routine just to go to school

Homework slapping me in the face in all of my classes
Slowly and painfully eating away at my sleep-time
It never ends, day after day

Feeling lost in ideas that confuse me
I can never tell what’s actually going on
Different notebooks for every class
Oops, grabbed the wrong one again
Creative Writing notes land in my Pre-Calc text-book
Biology II lab results in my Ecology notebook
Disorganization is inevitable
Confusion is a persistent state of mind

Sometimes I just tune everything out
Silence fills my ears
I see the teacher’s mouth moving
But everything is muted

Day after day
As the final bell rings, I just want to sleep
But no,
Football practice until after the sun sets

As I take off my pads
Trapped heat rises from my chest
My socks and feet smell terrible
Showering is inevitable

By the time all of this is done
I forgot my backpack in my car
It’s clear that no homework is getting done tonight
And the cycle resets.