Twas the night before deadline and all through the world
Every senior was writing and essays unfurled
The essays were read by the parents with care
With hopes that their children to college would fare
Children were writing as they lay on their beds
While visions of ivy leagues danced in their heads
And I with my computer and head full of murk
Had just settled my brain for a long evening's work
When inside my head there arose such a clatter
I stopped all my work to see what was the matter
Opened my window with a push of my palm
With hopes that the night air would soon make me calm
The stars in the sky caught my eyes with their glow
And the trees so beautiful here down below
When what to my wandering mind should appear
But the one thing that always brings writers such cheer
With a sudden rush I did hastily write
A parody poem quite nice and quite light
I knew in a moment it must be my Muse
That had troubled me earlier, as a ruse
More rapid than light speed the words then they rushed
And I wrote them down as my face nearly flushed
Now, Talent! now, Knowledge! now, High G.P.A.
On Board Scores! on Luck! on What Your Teachers' Say!
These are the bases of a college's choice
Plus the addition of the student's own voice
As shown in the essay the one chance I get
To impress some people I've not even met
(unfinished) and it always will be
It is obviously based on "The Night Before Christmas"
I thought it'd be cute, I personally like the "reindeer" :)
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