Two-In-The-Morning Freakout Poem by Michelle Dragonfly

College?
How can I do college?
I'm barely making it through
High school!
I can't go to college.
They'll expect
So much more from me,
They'll expect things I can't do!

But I have to go to college.
That's all I'm ever told.
That's the only thing that will
Make Mommy happy,
Make Daddy happy,
The only thing that will make them
Proud of me.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton.

Doctor, lawyer, CEO of a company.
Something along those lines.
That's what I have to be.
If they're to be proud of me.
But I can't do that!
I don't want to be that!
I'm not cut out for that!
I can't go to college!
But I must.

Kindergarten.
They were saying so
In kindergarten.
College is the only way to be
Someone important,
Someone who makes enough
To actually survive.
But if college is so crucial,
Why is it so expensive?

But that isn't my only complaint, true.
I would die.
All of the stress,
All of the struggle,
All of the everything.
I can't do it!
I'll fall apart!
I have no choice.
I must resign to this fate.

But I can't!
Shouldn't that be my choice,
Not that of the people around me?
Someone help me, please.
I beg of you all.
Get me out of here!
Someone, somewhere!
I need to escape!
But I don't know how.