Afraid Of School Poem by Randy McClave

I am so afraid to go to school
Spoke, one child to the other,
If I don't go, I will become and called a fool
And I must go said my father and mother.
I am so afraid to walk through those doors
And I'm afraid to enter my classroom,
I'm so scared of wars
And I don't want it to become my tomb.
I am so afraid to go to the library
And look for a book to read,
That thought now for me is very scary
As a education I truly do need.
The book that I want might be banned
Because of its thoughts and it's views,
My teacher might then be canned
Then it will be shown all over the local news.
I'm also so afraid of the NRA
And assault rifles being used by crazy fanatics.
For protection daily I and my parents do pray
Where murdering children is a terrorist tactics.
Now my friends and me are called weirdos and freaks
And bullies call me and others a misfit,
But, remember school will be over in a few more weeks
I hope that we all can just make it.

Randy L. McClave