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Graduating High School
by: Tassnim Moradipour
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I graduated high school.
my parents graduated high school
so you'd think this wouldn't be as cool
to me
but you see,
I graduated high school
because it was my only tool
and I entered university
experienced intellectual diversity
but so did you and the other guy next to you.
So I think about and sink in doubt.
Is it so great that I graduated high school?
when my cousins are tending to the mule
because another society was to cruel
to let them graduate high school?
No, high school isn't such a big deal
it's where little boys smoke pot and steal
the little girls hearts.
But high school is only one of those parts.
a needed step to get ahead.
So while my cousins are baking bread
my prof is teaching me about my head.
neurons traveling at some speed
discovering some philosophy
about my strength and capacity
all because I'm in university.
But my cousins are learning just like me!
just like me! well... not exactly.
they learn when they're taken to jail
and when there parents can't make bail
because there jobs don't make enough
because society is too tough.
They learn in a much different way
they listen to what authorities say
and what is the price that these kids pay?
well, they can't graduate high school.
they have to follow some silly rule
that says you can't go to university
until your high school is complete.
But they can't graduate high school.
I graduated high school
and my name was hung up on the walls too.
Tazz the chemist! on the wall!
Tazz the poet, had it all.
Tazz the girl given a decent life
where she can grow up not to be a house wife
where she can grow up to become smarter and stronger
and help other youth to live even longer
yeah, I graduated high school
and now I feel I'm less a fool
seeing my name on that honour roll list
made me insist
that this land of opportunity
is really a society
that helps me to speak and be
that helps me to promote unity
justice, good health care and amity
when my simple family
that is living over that great blue sea
is being kept from any possibility
of attaining an education.
and during this time of emancipation
of this and that within this nation
my cousins are working for less than minimum wage
because they weren't allowed to turn that page
and graduate high school.
So by telling you this I'm asking you
for a favour, not something simple to do
but a request that with every test
you write, you impress upon yourself
that this is a right that you are receiving
that other kids are just make believing
that they could be graduating high school
rather than filling car tanks with fuel.
My cousins are but a few of these
bright minds that don't have it easy.
huh. bright minds.
right, I am one of 27 cousins,
I'll let you bright minds do the math.
don't take what you have for granted.
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