Solomon Ochwo-Oburu Poet Elegy

Those That Went To School For Wisdom

those that went to school for wisdom
and pack knowledge in brains
where is the wisdom kept anyway?
where is the knowledge bagged?
in the tears, hot-heads they cause masses?
in falsehood they cherish in relationships?
in hatred they practice while powerful?
I think schools and schooling are for sure
living people’s graves, chambers of dying
man-made tombs, valleys of mis-education
dwelling places of dark powers where
the primitive  ignorant go for brainwashing
to graduate in malice and indolence
tell me; wars in this beautiful world
damage and depletion of ozone layer
injustice in this homely human society
are these the works of the unschooled?
are they not master plans of destruction,
by the ones who went to school; and
got their hearts boiled hard, heads baked,
with cynicism to hate, destroy, condemn?
why not try de-schooling, dismiss education?
I think the primitive innocent and 
the destructive knowledgeable and wise
should have separate planets as homes
for peace, safety and liberty to flourish here

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