LEADERS OF TOMORROW

When I was a pupil,

I was told that the labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain,

And that the only hero we must look up to was the man with the highest bidders on the ballot box.

But now I’m a teacher,

I go to work,

To become the hero that laboured in vain,

While I’m being dragged into the lion’s den,

To be the hero that shall be forgotten.

Tomorrow I go to school,

To lock myself behind my pupil’s locker,

Because I’m reminded,

That prisons are more guarded than the school gates.