Did I Waste My Time

At first school was cool Had to abide by one simple rule Read and write And never fight Recite the alphabet How easy can it get? One plus one is two A E I O U Two times two is four D O O R spells door Maths was about addition and subtraction Multiplication and division Studied animals and apes And all them shapes Circles and triangles Squares and rectangles Pentagons, hexagons Septagons, octagons Nonagons and decagons Then I grew a little and things got tough The stuff got a bit rough School became boring Talk of junior-high bullying I got scared and The maths got weird Areas and volumes Cones and pyramids Cords and sectors Quantities and vectors Pi r squared? Half times base times height? No way I’m getting these right Positives and negatives Radius and diameter Areas, perimeters Voltmeters and ammeters More and more shapes Rhombus, star and trapezium Physics and chemistry Lithium and helium Biology and history Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin, And the famous wall of Berlin I thought I was done But things got less fun I started to debit and credit Economics and statistics Differentiation and intergration Poisson and normal distribution Assignments, projects and dissertations Now I’ve got the diplomas and degrees But guess what I’m just a poet Now, tell me Did I waste my time?