"Click" : a poem

[Rebecca Flynn]

"Click"
By R. Flynn

Click, clack down the hall
You know I’ll be coming and wait for the minute
Don’t know why I’m rushing, ‘cause the door’s closed anyway.
9 am workloads at 11:55,
A working student’s identity is “barely alive”
And you’re standing there, waiting to lock the door.
Did you forget what it was to walk in my shoes?
Cause honey, These ain’t shoes, they’re four and a halfs!
And I’d love to see you run across a parking lot in ‘em!

Don’t turn to me and tell me I can’t!
You’re making me smaller
Is pushing me harder a way to justify?
Tell me why
It’s your deliberation, your frustration.
When you choke on those words,
That’s your humiliation.
It’s the dust kicked up in the wake of determination!

Damnation!
This life, and this choice is all my creation
No message, no meter, no meaning, no rhyme?
Look harder, look closer, look deeper this time!
And it’s not what you think, so see what you find
It’s through heart and through love
My profession’s defined.

So this one goes out to you
With your raised eyebrows and hopeless hands
Let go of your insults, your pretention
The foolishness you were too callous to mention
Drop your preconceptions and realize--
That we are all human!

We make mistakes, we drop the ball,
We pay up the dues that aren’t worth it at all
And we still hold our heads high.

So before I continue, before I comply
I want you to know that it’s me, you deny.
Turn your head, your eye is blind
But keep this in mind
When you hear my heels
Click.

[Lilam]

I really liked your poem! ;D

Gosh, there were so many good lines... Two of my faves were:

9 am workloads at 11:55

and

A working student’s identity is “barely alive”

I liked the phrase, "hopeless hands" for some reason, too.

Also, I enjoyed the rhyming that came out of no where. Kinda' flowed with the passionate tone of the lines.

The second to last stanza was my favorite. ^_^

We pay up the dues that aren’t worth it at all - Loved this line.

Anyway, good job and great poem!

<3's and huggles!