What To Do

[quietchat]

Alright, this is a poem I thought up last night while I was working with homework for my statics class, this is my first submission to the creative writing forum and will probably be my only one. To get an idea of this poem, there needs to be an explanation.

In school, college in particular, the higher level courses get harder and harder by leaps and bounds, and unless you're near genious (which I'm not ), you just have trouble keeping up. Thankfully that's where friends and tutoring comes in, but even that isn't always enough if you can't have access to it, and this poem looks at a student that has only himself to rely on for a long day of homework. Literally, you can easily spend hours and hours on a single homework problem when the answer and method is shockingly short, but impossible for most to figure out unless it's in front of you. This can be any class, but it works a bit better if you envision it as a math class.

I hope you enjoy this poem.




What To Do


My pen in hand, book in lap, working problem number 2,
I look and smile and think right now that I know what to do

A page of scribbles and wonders follow and learn I really didn't knew,
how to solve this problem and find the way, I really don't know what to do

An hour passes and no more written, I start to think of who,
could find the answer and help me now and show me what to do

No such luck to find someone who even has a clue,
I go frantic and pace about, I must learn what to do!

3 hours pass with this useless book and my brain shorts out on cue,
now I'm stuck, on my own, I still don't know what to do

10 hours pass and nothing more, let's try somthing new,
even with a new problem though I don't know what to do

I still can't solve such simple problems and tommorrow they are due,
totally spent and nothing more I realize what to do

I've given up on working now and now this math I rue,
nothing left but to sleep away and dream of what to do

The morning comes and I take the paper still blank on problem 2,
that day in class I finally learned just what to do

Sadly, though I learned today, I'm not really through,
this will happen again next week in fact and I won't know what to do

But I understood and learned my lessons and hope that you will too,
pay attention, take all your notes and hope you'll see just what to do

[AkiTorrien]

:3 Well, wonderful poem of course ^_^ I really like it.

I like how it outlines the hardships in the life of a college student. The words all roll together and flow together. :3

[Bobadoe]

HAH!!! I like it...well done Sir Quiet.

[fazenda]

Sorry but to me, the rhyming seemed like it was done by a 12year old.

There was grammar error after grammar error just to make it rhyme.

[ricecake]

Nice job Quiet. You really expressed what most college kids go through when it comes to homework. : )