Expectations [Edit 1]

[Vox_Nihilis]

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

Alic, first off, thanks for sharing this! Your poem has a lot of potential. I think what would help you the most, though, would be abandoning the rhyming couplet structure. If you're not ready for free-verse yet, I completely understand, but in my opinion writing in only couplets adds a childish undertone that I'm not entirely sure you're looking for. Writing a Shakespearean sonnet might be worth your while—that's the form I was most comfortable with when I first started writing poetry.

I really like your last couplet. That to me is the center of gravity here, the negative side-effects of genius and ambition. While your poem as a whole speaks to that, I think you could do so much more with language and phrasing. Play with how laboring night and day to make an A affects you as a person by painting a mental picture with words. My rule of thumb is that if I can't clearly see an image (assuming the poem is not meant to be unreasonably esoteric) then the reader won't be able to either. It will be a lot easier to do if you're not relegated to rhyming couplets.