As I sit in this classroom
Listening to keys clattering
Pencils clicking
Feet tapping
Pages flipping
Shuffling feet
Creaking seat
Faint ac, or is that the heater?
Such is unknown to me
For it is all overwhelming
Things so small
Yet so impacting.
Then, from outside
Chatter of children
Wind whispering my very name
Calling me to the freedom of the outdoors
A plane overhead
Announcing its presence
Clicking of a mouse
A pencil dropping
People adjusting in their seats
Drinking water
Back to work
The tap of a foot
The shuffle of paper
Pages turning
Legs shifting positions
Another plane overhead
And all the while,
Here I wonder,
While pages are turning;
What am I learning?
- Jay M
November 22nd, 2019
Never can I focus during a test - unless 'tis on the surrounding sounds.