Biology

Biology

Behold the class
Where evil resides
Where school grades crash
Where doom seems to hide

Stare through the glass
In the window beside
You may try to pass
But the others have died

What makes the sound
Echo inside?
I could say I've found
But I would have lied

The blackness blankets you
The darkness drapes
Do you think you can make it?
'Cause you can't escape

The tattered old books
Laugh in your face
The bone-splinting looks
Slowly dim without trace

The deafening silence
Is the only thing here
Interesting science
Has now turned to fear

Marked by the sleep
Shown heavily in bags
Counting the sheep
Cease after being tagged

The blue marker squeaks
Hope long since sailed
Students' face bleak
Scratch onwards to fail

So what can you do
To escape this demise?
To bid this adieu
And grasp at the skies?

Heed my last words
And do all that you can
'Cause the best thing I've learned
Is stay away from that man

~ Trevor Howell