First day of school

She promised she'd sit outside my classroom

until the school bell rang good-bye

but the windows had beencovered by posters of animals

and I couldn't see my mother

So I cried, unafraid of who saw my cheeks blush

until the teacher called my mother

and let me go back home

on the first day of school

Today, I walk through another door

an establishment I've beeen told

will transform my life

by providing a new perspective

but how could I have learned to observe

when windows had always been hidden,

and I'd been thought to stare at walls

They won't understand how

a place can hold back my learning

because I don't feel belong here

I will always be misfit

with a heart put at compromise

this time I can only cry on the inside

Find me another place,

I don't belong here.