[CLOSED] - Poets Pub 2020 - Biggest Competition Ever Vol. 2

Tempus est Opportunitus (NehpetsEnal) wk-5

Tempus est Opportunitus

I do not know whether I should feel chilled or excited.

If I am truly honest, I do not feel like I have been educated.

To quote an example, whoever prepared me for this day.

Should hold their hands up and pray.

That their own children do not receive the same compassion and care.

For my life at school has felt like a life lesson in the art of warfare.

If I was not battling with one teacher or another who thought it was acceptable to abuse and batter.

I found myself in a playground where you were a victim of your physique or chatter.

I stand here having wasted nearly twelve years of my young life.

They tell me one day I will grow up and have a wife but can only image strife.

What a sobering thought as I stand and wonder what the world has in store for me.

All I could say is thanks for nothing, for if I knew I was to die tomorrow no more uncertainty would lay before me.

F/N: Pink Floyds 'The Wall' was a fair reflection of my schooling and the poem title was my school motto, which I believe is Latin for 'Time is Opportunity'.

We never actually got the opportunity to stand up and speak, we had no graduation ceremony, you just wandered off unheralded, it's not that I cared because there was zero expectation.