Every day I come to this prison
The classrooms like jail cells
I come to learn history,science,math,art
But I never learn those at all
What I do learn is that people
Ridicule you just by the clothes you wear
You learn people only care about themselves
No one looks out for each other
The ones that try to set themselves apart from everyone else
Usually get labeled freaks or outcasts
The don't run in groups
When you see them there's usually only three or four of them together
Some are usually alone
There's the ones who can't handle being here
Because they feel trapped
Like they're in prison
Confined to one jail cell after the next
Watching the clock
Waiting for the bell
The bell that signals that they're free
Only to realize they have to come back tomorrow
Seniors wait for that final walk
Knowing they won't have to come back
When students like me are stuck here in prison
Until the day we take that final walk
And are free of these jail cells
Free of these people who ridicule and label you
But most of all free of these prison walls
Where the teachers are like prison guards
The food they serve you looks like it's still alive and tastes the same
Where your only chance of survival is not to trust anyone but yourself
In this prison the only thing different is the name
To me school is the same as prison
Only in this prison a judge didn't sentence you
You don't know why you were sentenced to come
You just know you get out on afternoon,night,and weekend passes
Praying for a summer pass otherwise your stuck in prison lock down
Hoping you don't have to take death row
There's no easy way out of this prison
Only the lucky survive and make it out alive
Because school is prison that we must face
Year after year we attend
And when we walk that final walk when we graduate
Do we know that we survived and made it out of this prison alive?
