I’m falling out of my desk

My watch’s time can’t keep me upright

I told them I’d become the best

Better now that they don’t see me and fill with fright

These notes have meshed into one morbid mess

Mind-mapped into seething blight

My only solace that some test

Will not last through the night

Though I study still

Till the moon parallel glow

For sixty minutes of my brain walking in the snow

I'll be frozen, my head hung low

Whipping arithmetic I still don’t know

Dirt above me, Thoreau with his hoe

I’m in Walden, I see the city out the window

Prayers whisper themselves to me

If I become a bean, maybe then I’ll grow

Prayers shove into my eyes

Tenacity grips me in fear

I don’t have to be beanstalk to rise

Adrenaline is all I will hear

Never again do I lay in demise

Learning is My license, I shift My mind into gear

I don’t need knowledge to be wise

Surprise! This effort They will hold dear

The cold around me only tells lies

I catch myself

We’re the cold blooded

Look at the warmth in Our eyes.