Kyle Tanaka
Ms. Shigemitsu
7:30
School
Woke'n up to the dumb alarm set to six
Blindly slamming the snooze button sleepily
Hoping to squeeze another 10 minutes.
dad pounding on the door like no tomorrow
Get up, swaying side to side half awake.
Morning routine, staggering all around.
Sit in a metal car for a long hour
get to school, avoiding people you dislike
Bell rings, still fighting to stay awake now..
Try to remember what homework you did,
The ones I didn’t do, must get done now.
Schools over finally, just go home and rest.
Day after day, it is always the same
Four long years to go, one day at a time
I wrote this poem, and it is more reflective on my own feelings more then other people feel about this subject. Some people enjoy coming to school like that it is the only way in which we grow, how we interact with people. I am not demeaning that school is not needed at all to learn and mature, but I wish that there were other ways that it could be done. School is a place that our minds get fed the knowledge that we need for the real world, how to question situations correctly in order to analyze it. School is something that is mandated by the government that we must have High School education. But the feeling that I get which is repeated in the poem is that, just the same routine gets tiring after repetition over and over again. For me, a feeling of change from the everyday routine of wake up, get ready, go to school, do tests, go home, and do homework, is needed.
In the first stanza was signifying the start of everyday. Waking up to the same routine everyday is just the start of everything. The reason of being tired is because of the day before, staying up late finishing homework, playing games, watching television is all reasons why we go to sleep late, and suffer the next morning. The start of the morning is always the hardest for me, keeping on wandering all over the house and school trying to remember what I was supposed to do, and trying to keep on time to not get out of the house late to get to school on time.
Next stanza is incorporating how our day goes at school. Once again it's the same customs that we go though. School has groups of people who hang out together, some people that you like and get along with, and others you just think are the most evil of all people. Another thing that is a significant part of school is tests. The tests see your knowledge and understanding of the subject that was assigned by the teacher, and if you weren't sleeping in class to remember something. For the homework that wasn't completed the night before, you hope to find a break time before the class to scramble to finish it, because you were too tired from doing it last night. Finally when the day is done, it feels that you accomplished a great task, and but yet there’s another school day tomorrow. Which will continue for a while until we are out in the real world working with other people.
The last two lines to me are the most meaningful, because that the same routine is tiring but yet, we must persevere to keep trying and to not give up. School is the key to our future and it depends on what kind of job we get, our character that will reflect us, and how we will act. Our future is important and how we want it to turn out, will start
with our present time school. So four more long years to go, for some the time is shorter. But all of us go down the same path.
