Day 146

Today's words:

Song
Exam
Microscope
Reform
Ferry
Conductor

I wrote a song
About what's it's like to take an exam
Under the microscope
Of people who don't trust you.  Like trying to reform
The life of the ferry
Conductor.

For what kind of life does this conductor
Lead? Singing his song
Back and forth on the ferry
Every day. So what if he passed the exam
For the job? They speak of reform
When all they want to do is put him under a microscope.

And under this microscope
He risks losing his job as a conductor.
That's what they call reform.
Replacing people with robots, a song
With the hum of machinery. They've a new exam
To drive the ferry.

But what about the people who take the ferry?
How do they feel about this microscope
And this new exam?
They love their conductor
And his song
And couldn't care less about reform

Unless it made his life better.  That's real reform,
According to the people who take the ferry.
They all know the song
And sing along. They don't need a microscope;
They know their conductor.
So how about that for an exam?

A new exam
Geared towards real reform,
Helping the life of the conductor
Of the ferry.
Even under a microscope
You'll still hear his song.

And in the end, the exam for the ferry
Reform wasn't a microscope,
And the conductor continued his song.