The bell rings off of the
metal legs of empty chairs,
questions kept them warm
offsetting the cold air with a fog.
The dirty outlines of paper
scar the seemingly concrete (yet still wooden)
desks, where so many tests
lay unfinished
and their purpose unrealised.
The kids wrote on the walls
more than their tablets,
in blue sharpie; teachers
were taunted for marking
them down in the same red
as the lockers.
That are now a corroded brown iron,
numberless and worthless,
they guard no knowledge.
From when sounds filled the halls,
with mostly a clutter of voices
that find their ghosts on security
cameras.
Rewinding and replaying
the time that I went to my locker,
and got my coat; knowing
full well that school will be
just as hollow the next day.
