Just in time for a celebratory poem for the coming STPM! 
~ We might just have something in common! ~
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Battling my way through time
Competing against deadlines
Exercise after exercise
I sometimes wonder is this life
Buried under books
Books that I don’t wanna look
Seeing them kills my mood
In the end I don’t feel good
Alone in the room like a slave
Studying my life away
Never know the light of day
My sense of time alarmingly sways
Not so gifted with intelligence
I know hardwork is the essence
So I try to do the best I can
In the perhaps overrated exams
Week after week
I’m mentally getting weak
Until my motivation seeps
And my goal temporarily slips
Month after month
Of incomprehensible sums
I no longer knew the word ‘fun’
It is shot down by an education gun
The feeling of failure is taunting
The fear of failure is haunting
Sacrificing my everything
I wonder if it is worth of anything
Around my head tension coils
I force myself to burn the midnight oil
Day and night I tirelessly toil
So that failure is foiled
Suppressed by monotone
Dwelling in my own boredom
Immersed in alienation
My life has lost its direction
Impelled to go with the flow
I stand up only to fall
All the bruises and the sores
Only compel me to soar
I tell myself not to give up
No matter how things will end up
I tell myself not to be torn up
No matter how rocks will come up
Expectantly one day I get full A’s
But what does that actually say
Considering what I have to pay
I don’t think my life is ever gay
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This is my self-written debut poem in my school magazine last year (2007).
(I actually contributed my very first poem back in 2003 but never mind that)
p.s. Ignore the last stanza, line 1 (It’s not gonna happen anytime soon)
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By: edbooked on Monday, 3 November 2008
at 1:29 am
whoa the person above sounds so serious! lol!
anyway, this is a pretty good piece. i like it! =)
its real, symbolic as well, and it makes me laugh when i reminisce on the ol’ school days!
keep up the great job! =)
By: tracy on Saturday, 22 November 2008
at 5:41 pm