Page 41 - KCN 2020
P. 41

Third Place

 Second Place

 Competitions                                   Terrence Teoh, JR3D


 Chang Jie Ee, JR3B




                                        Sunshine shone through my window,
 Sometimes I question                   Got up from bed with a blurred mind,
 Are you enough?
 Will you ever be enough?               Rocked the streets with my own beats,
                                        Taking every step to school without a regret,
 How much is enough?
 The deafening criticism,               It’s a school like no other,

 Inside this overpopulated   The crushing pressure,  ‘Cause it’s a better school.
 bubble,  The uncalled for advice
 no one wants to fall behind,  Pushing me into these toxic   Rushed into class,
                                        Heat gone down for me,
 no one wants to admit   competitions.  The air-conditioner is making it colder for me,

 defeat,                                Ain’t no other school better than this,
 but only one is seen.  They say they’re helping  A Better School
 They say its for my best               Holographics on the board,

 The only way out  But really           The music with it’s chord,
                                        It’s a school like no other,
 is to excel  Is it for me?             ‘Cause it’s a better school.
 is to eliminate
 Eliminate all the   Or for the ego of them?  I got no bags on my back,
 competition.  To feed the pride of them?
 For the validation of them?            So I don’t need to pack,
 The world,  For them?                  Taking 200 grams with me,
                                        It’s a flatten board,
 filled to the brim                     Which people call it ‘I-pad’,

 with competitions  All these unnecessary com-  Flipping the pages inside,
 Unnecessary competitions.  petitions for them.
                                        No worries on the outside,
                                        Learning without regrets,
 Listen,                                And being thankful for the opportunities I had,
 I wanna give up                        To be in a better school.
 but really
 Can I give up?





 37                                                       38
   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46