Intellectual Desperado
INTELLECTUAL DESPERADO
Dear desperado,
Knowledge awaits you tomorrow,
If you painstakingly throw
And expedite yourself like an arrow.
Though your foresight looks narrow,
Don't leave your mind incommunicado
Or famished cos at seashore is where ships row.
Ignorance makes devious innuendo,
rising in a fearsome crescendo.
Deface this phase dear desperado.
Despite despicable deeds of a life of struggle,
You're on your way to completing your hurdle.
Education or knowledge is soul food.
Whether from the mansion, the street or the hood,
Whether a Scandinavian, Africana or Caribbee,
Reality gives life to what you grope to be,
It set prisoners at liberty, sail free!
Be consumed with passion like inferno.
Don't just let knowledge sink in but tower
A dormant mind will make ignorance to hover.
Dear desperado,
What you feed your soul in hunger
Makes money out of a mere monger.
Intentionally feed your intellect not just nations,
no matter the circumstances or limitations.
The insight garnered exude theories as Plato.
Knowledge announces you with loud bravado
Making a scholar out of a rascal.
Even mother Earth is a seed of Knowledge, ask her!
With same potency until the last set hour,
Knowledge in hand is worth power.
A hungry soul goes extra mile to feed the mind
And feast on information that one meticulously find.
The rarest example of a kid's mindset emancipation;
Can you fathom the level of desperation?
Starved of light at home for homework & studies,
he took the opportunity to use the street lights.
This kid jettisoned the trap of the dark abyss,
Staring limitation and slothfulness in the face
and throwing up a middle finger with much hate
Can you already tell that this one will be great,
irrespective of the tough and humble beginning?
Even in his struggles, I can tell he's winning.
Despite life's impediment, be strong dear desperado.
Encomiums to this young Plato.
Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}
Copyright ©? March, 2023.
Copyright © Victor Immanuel | Year Posted 2023
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