Richard Nnoli Poet Epic

Book Smart Or Street Smart

Book smart or  street smart 

Street smart 
The street thought me 
How to love 
Showed me pains
Gave me challenges
Hugged me with smiles
But slapped me with knowledge
Yet the street thought me 
How to love 
How to live 
How to fight for my right 
How to doubt 
How to grow 
Yes the street thought me 
How to love 
How to get together with 
Brothers and sisters with love 
How to be a man 
How to care 
How to give
How to help 
How to hope 
How to revenge
How to be strong 
How to face dangers 
How  life is though
Yet the best of all 
The street thought me 
How to love 
You can't take away the street 
Life in me 
No matter where you take me to 


Book smart
I didn't remember so much 
About the books 
Cos schools are boring to me 
The class room is like 
A meeting venue to my kind 
I love to be out there 
Cos so many things I read in the books 
Dont help me to be better much
But keeps my mind limited
To a particular knowledge
I think my mind is more better
Than the books 
I could understand with time
That my reality is my truth 
So I saw my survival
In the street 
The street need no books 
But real life 
And here is were am born 
To grow not with the books

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