The Warrior Voice : An Ode to Mr. Arieas (:

An Ode to Mr. Arieas (:

Sylvia Yang
February 16, 2012
Filed under Feature, Student Life

Tall, towering, with a booming voice-

The essays that you give without choice;

The books you tell us to read,

Do we truly need?

Not to mention the practice tests,

That you afterwards assess.

And the M.C.Qs-

As if the sky threw us endless clues.

Yet the stories you tell in class,

We truly cannot pass-

Particularly the ones about failed girlfriends and plays,

We can honestly laugh and hear them for days.

You with your room decorated with The Simpsons and superheroes,

And a class full of students who give you Snickers in fear of receiving zeros.

Despite your size that towers,

You’re pretty chill after school hours.

Because you truly want us to succeed,

You demand us to heed.

If your intentions are founded on that base,

Then I rest my entire case-

English is already a hard subject,

Yet, ‘cause of you, it’s a course we really cannot object.