The Scholar

• Artist: Burning Breeze
• Description: I wrote this at school, I was looking at a book and decided to write this. Boredom = good.
• Date: 11/07/2008
• Tags: scholar

Books, Books, all around
Words and pictures, knowledge abounds
If you ask him about emotion
He’ll say, “I’m too busy, too much commotion.”

Poor, poor scholar
He spent many a dollar
On books and learning
But cannot get what he is yearning

Time for change, time to live for real
He got a job, and can afford his meals.
He doesn’t miss them, not at all
“Books,” he said aloud, appalled.

Now he has a life and everything he wanted
Occasionally when he sleeps, he is haunted
By the books he once lived by
He wakes up and says,” I know why!”

He threw the books in the trash
“Hey, but they cost cash!”
Disregarding this thought, he went back to sleep
And now for once, he is at peace

Comments

[The Azure Quincy]

Overall, nice concept, pretty good. I would try to fit the rhyme and meter a bit better, because it sounds like it's trying a bit too hard in some of the places, and the meter doesn't fit sometimes.