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Roses are red
Aren’t violets green?
Junior year
makes me scream
All the work,
the constant books,
now I give my teachers
constant dirty looks
Just six more weeks
but we do not slow down
The work piles on
I am going to drown - in work.
Roses are red
but violets aren’t green
The author’s purpose
makes me scream
What if the author
did not want us to analyze
to pick and prod and be up to our eyes - in work.
I simply do not understand
why we can not have a break
having more stress than sleep
is a sacrifice I hate to make
Strontium is red
Nickel is green
The AP chem test
makes me scream
Months of review
I think made a two
I rock at redox reactions
but there were only a few
Isn’t the purpose
of your youth to tarry
in fun, carelessness
and not have stress to carry?
Because that is certainly not
junior year to me
the work, the work
it makes me scream.
And while I cannot be too mad
these classes were my choice
I cannot scream any longer
I have lost my voice