Doing homework left and right,
Ha! No, i’m not “fine”
Working my *** off all the time--
I’ve got no time!
No time for these video games
All the “kids these days are playin’”
I ain’t got the time of day
And i’m just here saying--
Why do we have to do this?
Do you understand the strain
The stress
You do daily to our brains?
And THEN
You accuse us of being lazy
Selfish, stupid
You’re driving me crazy!
Don’t we deserve at least
A little (grudging) respect
Being ABLE to cope AT ALL (not all of us can...)
What more do you expect?
Do you expect us to just be “fine”
Every time you ask?
Because we’re not
Not with all these endless tasks.
It ******* ***** TO BE A TEENAGER
In this day and age
And I, at least, would appreciate it
If all these people talking trash about kids my age
Would just stop
Because we’re not “in your day” anymore
And I’m not “fine”
And school, (to be perfectly honest) is just a bore.
Nov 8, 2017
Nov 8, 2017 at 9:15 AM UTC
Doing homework left and right,
Ha! No, i’m not “fine”
Working my *** off all the time--
I’ve got no time!
No time for these video games
All the “kids these days are playin’”
I ain’t got the time of day
And i’m just here saying--
Why do we have to do this?
Do you understand the strain
The stress
You do daily to our brains?
And THEN
You accuse us of being lazy
Selfish, stupid
You’re driving me crazy!
Don’t we deserve at least
A little (grudging) respect
Being ABLE to cope AT ALL (not all of us can...)
What more do you expect?
Do you expect us to just be “fine”
Every time you ask?
Because we’re not
Not with all these endless tasks.
It ******* ***** TO BE A TEENAGER
In this day and age
And I, at least, would appreciate it
If all these people talking trash about kids my age
Would just stop
Because we’re not “in your day” anymore
And I’m not “fine”
And school, (to be perfectly honest) is just a bore.
My class had to write a poem based on Maya Angelou's "Ain’t That Bad" at school, basically our perception of our culture, and however we interpreted it.
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