Schools don't teach

We learn many things at school
How to be popular and how to be cool
How to calculate, write essays.
How to properly behave.
How to focus and listen.
How to harmonize and sing.
How to write poems,
Mistakes, to avoid them.
But why don’t they teach us
What’s a crush and what is love?
Who is real and who is fake
Who sticks by, who’s gone when you wake?
Who is worth our pain?
How to resist them again?
Who to love when parents divorce?
How to live with half a heart.
How to fill that missing void,
Mom or dad, what’s the right choice?
How to enjoy the fullest life.
Heart’s desire or what’s right?
How to deal with what teenagers feel?
People’ll say “just a phase, Those feelings aren't real.”
Should we hope or avoid?
So that we don’t disappoint.
How to love again
Hearts broken by a player’s game?
Should we heal?
Or be numb, not feel.
Because we’re all lost and confused
Schools don’t teach us what is real.
Maybe this is a test in itself
To feel those feelings with little help
Maybe we’ll all be alright
Maybe that pain's what they call life.