Darren (Faster Than Train)

18 October 2016, 1:25AM

My father kicked my tummy

In a real presence of mommy.

I run from sides and corners.

So it won’t feel a belt's leather.

I come to your forbidden office

I never been good you noticed.

You hit me straight to the head

Employees saw, knew I’m dead.

I told my teachers, classmates

Friends were afraid, it radiates.

Scared to confront whom did.

Can’t moved, smiled a candid.

He picked me up from school

My family operates preschool

Three of those were so good

That failed me crook to stood.

When outside, I tested myself

Who is faster to anybody else

I left him at the MRT stations

Bumped teacher, companion.

Qiqian (Unpolished Skills)

18 October 2016, 6:20PM

My mum is sweet like where she works

In chocolate factory, she remains lurked.

She always supports me, no restrictions

She sends me at school, pays my tuition.

I don’t force myself to study, I still pass.

I opened my books and there to surpass

The expectations of others are so high!

The skills I have, never utilized or apply.

Until I’ve found a friend, he teaches anew

I want to be with him, challenge my ability

Aside from school, there is a life outside.

Waiting for me to succeed, my own pride.

Michael (Unknown One)

18 October 2016, 5: 45PM

My father insured people first

My mother billed, reimbursed.

My auntie at home is reverse

She taught me until I get thirst.

My grandma is a native Asian

Half-Chinese and Indonesian.

She let me learn a countryman.

Be independent, I wish I can.

I read correctly, write wrongly

I say or use the words brightly

But when I hold my pen tightly

All the letters will fade slightly.

You ask me how, I tell you so

I refresh my notes and overdo.

My marks fluctuate, what to do?

I even burned my eyebrow too.

My parents’ alarm and rise up,

We hurry to DAS, drink my cup.

My scores are high, I get snub,

They told me, get another bud!

I continued training, I improved.

Mistakes are there, so unmoved.

Three English tuitions, we remove

While my pending case unproved.

Thalia (A Challenging Development)

17 October 2017, 7:00PM

My hands are small,

    the gross and fine

    motor skills are developing.

My face still round,

    a baby, ungrown

    hair, everyday of no falling.

My mind is young,

    pure, lack wisdom

    conscience and undecided.

My feet likes to hop,

    on the road light,

    dreams and to be recovered.

My voice is loud,

    I cry, it can collapse

    a cemented wall of bricks.

My joy of learning,

    is my new passport

    to unleash my brain tricks.

Jia Xun (Parent’s Fault)

17 October 2017, 6: 45PM

My brother always enrolled to most of the tuition centres.

But he seemed uninterested in overcoming own hurdles.

My parents were businessmen, busy making real money.

But they have forgotten who to take good care eventually.

With all the siblings’ competition, rivalry going between us.

My nature being aggressive, no sharing rule has caught us.

So when I am at class, I cannot control my obsession and impulse,

I keep showing disappointment when getting some imperfect results.

I guess this is what my parents’ goal and way to brought us

With their past frustration about my brother, to me has passed.

Who shall to blame now or can anyone willing to discipline me?

I love them all but I don’t belong when I have to unlock best of me.

Believe me, I behave and not a property of this circus.

It just happened that I cannot choose a family of serious.

So I have to paint my shadowy past, make it vivid a lifetime.

To invent my own wheels, accept them, refine me every time.

Lennon (Young Father)

17 October 2017, 4:50PM

My mum was beaten hard

    upside down, divorced

    with my own dad.

At two, I’ve learned

    he left a cycling bike

    that’s all I have.

At room, I must grow old

    with my auntie

    daily, I tried.

Sadly, everything’s mine

    come passes by,

    soon it hides.

By eight, I create my plans

    to stick boldly

    with arms at her around.

Even as much as I lied

    to her, I was not

    enough to stay beyond.

She found another man,

    tattooed and hits

    cigars with red eyes.

I was scared with my tiny

    bones,memories

    strong for goodbyes.

Jue Min (Doubt-Believer)

22 October 2016, 1:35AM

Yet I’m primary two and standard is four

So my parents’ take it a slightly sour.

I’m shy and just patronize best hour.

When I’m in doubt with my all answers

I will be obsessed finding chapters

My ways is different to any panther.

Hwee Gek (The Sea-Ride)

17 October 2017, 3:50PM

I am a girl, tall and so chubby

A long time ago, I like to study.

I’m top of prestige class yearly

Then, surprise given by family.

I ran to hug them immediately

Excited, packed my things tidy

Glide on the stairs like any lady,

My appreciation reached galaxy.

We went to Thailand for jet ski

I was energetic, it was deadly.

I was innocent and not ready,

To face the fate so immensely.

I bumped my head at the rear

My heartbeats stopped, I fear.

The blank generation beware,

Open-mouth that had to spare.

Five minutes, brain has no air

My system in body will impair

It will be long to get any repair

Training and intervention there.

I was bedridden for many years

A goldfish memory is very clear.

My friends became rotten sphere

No hope and cheeks of no cheer.

Haoran (I’m Perfectly Alright)

17 October 2017, 3: 20PM

My parents are scholars from NUS,

My sister, her fiance do now studies.

There’s 3 mistakes the most I get,

Every exam, expectations were set.

Yes, I am okay with a sweaty palm

I was conditioned, I must be calm.

Usually, I can work under pressure.

The time is shaking, trembling sure.

Unsure, am I really an efficient boy

I also want to play some truck toy

But my body is always pulling me

To the books and tables I go see.

I want to be scientist and musician

Become pilot or a mathematician

Someday, police or even teacher

Finally I can perfectly teach better.

Aloysius (They say, I am)

17 October 2017, 2:35PM

"I am sad”

My teacher said, “I’m bad.”

“I am happy”

My friends said, “I’m greedy.”

“I am low”

My father said, “I’m slow.”

“I am rapid”

My mother said, “I’m stupid.”

“I am normal”

All of you said, “I’m not.”

Jia Qi (Hopeless Future Youth)

17 October 2017, 2:25PM

I’m fifteen and have lots

    of hidden anxieties.

At school, house, places

    it’s all complexities

My mum resigned from

    her twenty years company.

To understand my needs

    and witness my agony.

I cut my strong wrist but

    don’t want to die.

I want to escape the pains

    and loves to tie.

The thousand words I read

    hundred scars marked.

In my skin it bleeds, I feel

    a mask I embarked.

Zachary (My Twin Brothers)

17 October 2017, 2:20PM

We are not from the root

    of country, Singapore

But we are adopted

    permanent, I adore.

My father is a pilot and

    mother as an accountant.

I was the first born child

    in school I’m non-compliant.

I turn around for 5 minutes

    with a plane at the side.

I have poor mental maths

    especially when I divide.

Then, to produce a picture

    of a lively, dear family.

They prayed, unplanned

    my brother here finally.

While just passing and

    at school struggling.

I taught him to play and

    same when bubbling.

Years had passed, I see

    he’s developing delayed.

We go on same doctors,

    pampered as I relayed.

Jo-En ( Crying Boss)

17 October 2017, 2:05PM

    I am a good boy, I follow

I listen to them all.

    My dad says, I can do better

and foods are on table.

    My mom says, learn to

what books never tell.

    My auntie says, don’t depend

on parents whom compelled.

    Whenever my teacher coach,

train, teach and discipline me

    I can feel all through the

spine, brain and flows in me.

    I cried for no reasons

even saying good or bad at all.

    The emotions, motive or wish

at me like sitting at chair lethal.

    Even so, I will grow up and

four or more companies await.

    The chair will be vacant and

the people I will recite.

    I am afraid it will be misfortune,

40 years my parents’ toil.

    I have my other dreams and

not to follow your old tool.

Yao Rong (Not Challenging At All)

17 October 2017, 1:55pm

I want to learn but

    I don’t want to study.

Don’t tell my mum

    I never listen carefully.

I want to come in class

    and meet a lot of friends.

Observe and analyze lives

    no book contents.

If you challenge me every day

    it won’t work, disappointedly.

Support me and encourage me

    even to upset you infinity.

I never want to have bad marks

    like 70 and below results.

I like to attend tutor classes

    no pretentions, I’m like this.

No, one is not enough to know me

    the needs and attention, I wish.

To my father and brother who can

    play outside, while I establish.