As students across Fermanagh struggle with their exams at this time, Ederney student James Maguire found a novel way of dealing with his pent up frustration at the 'never ending' routine of studying and sitting exams.

James a 17-year-old student at St Michael's College, is currently sitting AS level exams in English Literature, Politics, and History. While studying he found time to pen the following poem.

Never-Ending

('WRITTEN WHILE ON A BREAK')

As I glance out my window

From the top room floor,

I ponder and question,

"What is it all for?"

I sit in my room

With seldom light,

And do not leave, till dusk, near night.

With books to learn, notes to take...

"I just want to live! For Christ sake!"

I yearn to be free, to do what I please,

To travel, to see and gather memories.

To prospect the world, not through a book,

But to behold its beauty, from my outlook.

Alas, sadly, I cannot forward time,

Feeling always once, I committed a crime.

Trapped inside four walls,

With my door as a gate,

My mind being rattled,

To create...to create.

I know what they say,

"The best way out is through,

What you're doing is best,

I believe in you."

But I've been doing it now

For many long years,

It will not stop.

I should be in tears.

To succeed in life,

To achieve my dreams,

This is the only way, only path, it seems.

Have to keep going,

Keep hanging

On

And I can never stop,

No matter how much I yawn.

This matter resided deep in my heart,

But now I must, again, make a start.

For I have been here now, well,

Quite some time.

For this was the reason

I created this rhyme.

By James Maguire