A place that is deceivingly peaceful and quiet

Where its people would strongly deny it

A place where a child could learn math

But cannot choose their own path

Bound by the limits of society and school

Where we are expected to fix the world with such broken tools

Something passed on for generations to come

So to the system they too shall succumb

Everyone is unique in their own individual way

But their true potential, dormant it will forever stay

Living their lives bound by numbers like a ball and chain

Their desires shall forever slumber, locked up in the depths of their brain

Under the skin of the one you call child

Lies the potential for change and diverge the ravenous wild

So I ask you, my brethren and people of earth

What can the young do, the ones who are blind to their worth

Go to school and continue down society's assembly line?

Or be different and try to make better times?

Money decides our lives and our fates

And to that I know you can relate

Do not blame us for the problems that have ensued

For they have been ignored long before we were the youth

We all want to be different and pursue a life dream

So let us question our world and see the future gleam

We bear the burden of such a Tall Task

Too Heavy a weight for those with Short Pasts