College

College is a place we go to learn
to get our degrees and make what’s earned,
but college isn’t all that pretty
the drama that flows is truly thickening.

We’re all broke and stuck in school,
nothing to do but study and follow the rules.
Running on caffeine, stress and fear,
we pray the weekend gets us out of here.

Assignments stack like towers tall,
one slipup and the whole thing fall.
We laugh, we cry, we barely can sleep,
live with memories carved a little too deep.
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But somehow through the sleepless nights,
the deadlines, and lonely frights,
we’ll learn who we are– and who we’ll be.
Because college will break us, shape us,
and will finally set us free.