This College Thing

Paper barriers, surround me
Confounding sentences deter me 
from sleep and all that is good,
Essay due Friday? Midterm Tuesday?
Never before has the power of words
Held more salience,
These immaterial constructs, these -ologies, 
Cast as dark a shadow, upon my body
Sending this haze of lethargy, deep
Into my every limb, blinding
My sight, blending day and night, 
The distinction of awake and sleep,
Lost in the confusion of dreams,
Day and night, words drift, numbers shift
Through and through, proportionalities
Becoming the most important part of any identity
Rationality substituted by sheer exhaustion,
Until the bubbling on the scantron blur into
A murkiness, 
This pencil, stabbing points randomly
In this darkness, 
Cast as deep a shadow, as to
Create in its heavy fabric a black hole
Sucking me in, stretching me apart
Its gravitational disparities making spaghetti
Of my mental processes, theology and philosophy,
The common basis to humanity and reality,
Falling, failing, tearing apart at the event horizon
of this college thing

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

Written during dead days before final week(s) last semester... I happened to be taking a course in astronomy at the time.

Reviews

[Kena Dawn Augustine]

A great free verse, noice choice of words. I can see you wrote it when you were tired too?? lol. you somehow snuck time in to write this nice piece. I was in college too, so I understand how exhausting it is, feeling like you are going on little sleep and adrenaline, studying, being cluttered with ideas and theories. I also like your black and white pictures. They create a perfect backdrop to your picturesque words.Becuse sometimes being in college you don't always see color.

kena

[L.G. Knight]

very very nicely done I love the imagery!

~Frances~

[Rockebah]

You make college seem so gloomy but thats the idea so congratulations on a job well done. Giving people an other view of college

[Cylis Derrens]

I describes how college and all the tests, essays, and term paper can stretch us thin and force us to scramble to keep up. Definitely a true picture fo the whole college experience.