Ode To Exams

You loom where devils roam free
Hell bent on robbing our glee
A trouble no man must bear
Examinations... at you I bravely stare.

You drive decent souls to the edges of insanity
Our Freedom deprived: useless numbers now measure our vanity
You're nothing but dirty, disgusting and crass,
To you the student community says "Kiss my pretty ass"...

May the creator of exams rot in Hell's Tunnel!
May Satan thrust pineapples up his anal canal!!
Let the world ridicule this thoughtless deed!
As we sit in dim lit halls and perspire as we proceed!!

Bring this nonsense to an end,
Before our spines stay forever bent.
Read, learn, revise and recite.
By the end of it, our bodies lie in coffins and our souls drift towards the ethereal light!

Author's Note: Tomorrow is the first of our board exams... My feelings for the system are summed up quite vivdly above. Comments welcome.

Ode to Maiden

In our AGE OF INNOCENCE, we WASTED YEARS and sat aimless at 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT.

In such times, you taught us to be a TROOPER and overthrow the CHAINS OF MISERY.

You rid us our FEAR OF THE DARK by shining BRIGHTER THAN A THOUSAND SUNS.

We were EDUCATED FOOLS but thanks to you we're RUNNING FREE now. By becoming the GHOST OF THE NAVIGATOR, you showed us a DIFFERENT WORLD.

You turned us into men who can proudly show their ACES HIGH. Now as you leave us, we become CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED. The world is bland, THESE COLORS DON'T RUN anymore.

Who if not you will clear the thick HOLY SMOKE to tell us the tale of the FLIGHT OF ICARUS. Now as you leave us behind in this BRAVE NEW WORLD, with only your LEGACY to cherish, we kneel and chant... HALLOWED BE THY NAME.

IRON MAIDEN...we stand by the golden GATES OF HEAVEN and await...we await THE FINAL FRONTIER.

You guys are legends... We'll miss you...