Expectations [Edit 1]

[Alic Elliot]

Edit 1:

I stare up at my homework, piled oh so high
Wanting to do anything else, I rub my eyes and sigh
Each year brings higher expectations
Yet each day brings new limitations
School has become emotionally draining
I'm finding fewer and fewer things entertaining
I've become a working machine, fearing failure
This causes me to constantly feel like manure
I'm spending more and more time inside
With my insecurities that I'm forced to hide
Because with above average intelligence
Comes the pressure to achieve excellence

                                                                       

While I wasn't able to shorten it all that much, I only kept a few fragments from the original poem. That's mostly because looking back, it was far from my best work and had much room for improvement. I stayed with the expectations/limitations thing, expanding on it as @lizziep suggested. I scrapped the short, choppy line length because was hard to get what I was thinking into a line of one or three words, while avoiding repetition. 

I also attempted to make this a bit more interesting and with a more disciplined form, but I couldn't manage to make it a sonnet. The sonnet ended up being really one sided and I scrapped it. I hope this is more interesting, though.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback! I built on it best I could

Alic.