O teacher, O dear Ma’am,
If you don’t coach me for the exam
I’ll surely fail
Daddy is busy in his business
Mummy is not all that educated
I can’t expect them, me to bail
If you don’t coach me one to one
My train will surely derail.
Which subject I find easy, you ask
Well, to me none of them is easy
All of them are hard
I grasp not how those sums are solved
Grammar, history,
geography, science
All are marked red in my progress card
Four times I carried letters home
“Come to the office to discuss your ward!”
I’ll definitely fall on this path
Tricky and slippery, unfeeling and unkind
to my tender shaky feet
I understand why so many hate school
Why so many drop away midway
To survive so many learn to cheat
I won’t, I want you
to hold my hand
And lead me, my future to meet!
Xavier Bage
Wed, March 15, 2017
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