Reading, Writing, Arithmetic & Me & Bipolar

Reading, Writing & Arithmetic

Eagerly I went to school

At the age of thirty-three

Desire to get a degree

I was tired of living so poor

Needed to have a better life for me & my kids

Got tired of being just a housewife & mother

 

Writing poetry doesn't pay the bills

Reading, writing & arithmetic does

If you get an education, you can change your situation

That's the name of the game

I enrolled in highschool to get my diploma, not a GED

Not sure I could handle it, but I did just fine

Going from classroom to classroom with kids half my age

 

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A touch of gray in my hair, wasn't sure if I'd fit in but I did

Reading, writing & arithmetic was fun

I took school quite serious and I earned straight A's

Two years of high school I took & I was quite proud of myself

Happened to be going through some tough times at home

My husband was into drugs & became quite jealous of me

Education I knew was my only way out of this rut

The tension at home got thick, & he started abusing me

I stayed in school anyway, & I got my high school diploma

Came down with bi-polar disorder & lost my self esteem

 

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Many years later, at the age of 55, my hair completely gray

Enrolling in college, is a dream I can still accomplish

 

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By the time I get my degree

I'll be entering my senior years, no easy task ahead of me

Putting up with a bipolar affliction for far too long

Out of these lessons in my life, I have learned so much

Loving grandmother, mother & widow heading back to school

A bi-polar disorder won't stop me this time, college on-line

Rewarding myself with a college degree, I won't let anything stop me