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"Rough Life"

April 6, 2015
By Brogan McGraw BRONZE, Austin, Texas
Brogan McGraw BRONZE, Austin, Texas
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Seven a.m. wake up it’s the morning
Walk down the hall you hope the day won’t be harming
My family is around me and so I smile
Stressing my face knowing it won’t last for a while
I get in my car and sadly head to school
I know my peers find it fun to make me look like a fool
Now listen kid kids here is your homework your test is tomorrow
And don’t be coming to me begging for sorrow
The bell rings I call my dad and tell him I can’t pass
“You can do it I believe in you” as I drag to my next class
The bell rings the girl next to me cry’s and says I want my mom
I’m sorry the teacher says do you want a sorrow song
Like King James I don’t like you at all
Get out of my class I need to teach Jim Crow laws
Scared I look at a poster “no negativity”
Et tu Brute she yells at me heavily
I want to stand up for myself I really do
But I don’t want to be failing history too 
After being targeted for a  while I finally leave
Walking in the hall I see a kid begging the bully please
I get home a realize its only Monday
And the media is telling me a kid brought a gun today
Jaw dropped I ask what is wrong with the human race
How could you hurt children I can’t look at your face
But I go to bed still thirteen stripes fifty stars
Hoping that tomorrow will put terrible people behind bars
Seven a.m. my alarm rings so I smile
Realizing that unlike other peoples pain mine only lasts a little while

                                                                                                                                                                              



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