Self Expression Poem : "Compromise is Our Demise"

What’s our norm? What’s our standard?

 Are they lesser, are they more?

 How much do we value this thing called education?

 Is “getting” a grade simply enough?

I mean as long as we keep this “standard” it shouldn’t matter.

Let’s compromise. After all compromise will be our demise.

Why accept this “standard”? The norms we choose to live by.

Why assimilate in to a culture where success

And being the best is a non-existent terminology?

But as long as it applies to us all; we’ll be alright, right?

We rush and we rush, not to understand, not to comprehend,

And not to give us an upper hand.

 We rush to become ones who’ll be later pushed aside.

Our Youth, Our Youth!

They’re the most important things not just of today but of tomorrow.

They’re the future, they’re our futures; but let’s go ahead and loose em’. 

Loose them to the standards.

Prep them for when they’ll have to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Let’s cheat them through, but it’s okay it doesn’t really matter.

Are they lesser, are they more? Why let them explore?

The standards are our norms…

 And we’ll all conform,

We’ll compromise and compromise

And let it be our beautiful demise.

By: Bailey Morgan

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