School Life Diary

Dear Diary,

Welcome to my humble abode,
The window to my life.
Look within, and gaze upon the
sorrows
joys
and everything in between.

September 1st

The moment I step in,
I knew my vacation was over,
Here comes my personal hell.

Inside, I see so many others,
Were they shaking on the inside--Like me?
Inside my clammy palms,
Is my list of tortures to follow,

First Period: PE
Second Period: Science
Third Period: History
Fourth Period: Yearbook
Fifth Period: Math
Sixth Period: English

School, here I come.

PE

Clothes to wear,
Rules to follow,
Passed out like candy to children.

Teacher introduces self,
Students follow,
Hello, nice to meet you,
Lies, all.

Science
We walk in,but we don't sit down--
--inertia: what is in motion,stays in motion,
unless acted on by outside force--

We keep on walking,
No outside force,
Teacher is helpless.

History

I walk in,
Toward my own demise,
Walking corpse,
Like Pickett's charge.

I see the teacher,
Laughing, teasing,
Custer's last stand.

Yearbook

We are the crew who creates,
The book of the school,
I will have much to add,
My life, my voice.

My crew within the crew,
A friend,
An enemy,
One in the middle.

Lunch

A maelstrom, a storm,
An amalgam of rush, hunger,
And hurry.

Hurry, to the line,
Or face starvation.

Math
A personal hell,
Within hell,
What could be worse?

The teacher is sharp,
Has a calculating face,
I'm in for a ride,
And that isn't a hyperbola.

(see note)

English

The moment I enter,
I see I am alone,
In the corner of the room.

Others know others,
No others know me,
Like 'ain't' surrounded by good grammar.
Ain't that right?

Afterschool

A solitary friend,
I single out of the crowd,
We are two lone wolves,
Birds of feather.

We find comfort in each other,
Knowing we are alone in the crowd,
But not alone in each other.

Home

After turmoil of school,
Do I find oasis in my own house?
No, for school has followed me,
In the guise of homework.

Piles and piles,
Unfitting for a first day,
Threatening to drag me under,
Unless I fish myself out.

Note
Hyperbola: A graph (drawing)
Hyperbole: A figure of speech that exaggerates something

Note from ze Author: THIS IS STRICTLY FICTIONAL. But there might be a few allusions...