Why Are You Smart

They always ask Why are you so smart? But I'm not smart I'm just wise Which gives me the common sense I need to know when and not to speak To know that I should do my homework as soon as I get home and to study with all the time I have to spare To know I shouldn't waste my time with fools who will only give me burdens to bare I am wise and I have enough common sense to know that I need to use it so I can be successful and make the right choices in life On tests And just before my death I don't know who I will become in the future But I know to search for my passion And to never run away from it I am not smart But I know i am wise So I will at least grow up with common sense Just enough for me to make it somewhere And to help others get there So you can call me smart For being wise But don't just say I'm smart Because that's not what made my brain swell in the first place It was what got me from there to here Then to now It was I within wise Giving me this knowledge Situations I've been through Everything that taught me to understand things So I guess I am smart But firstly wise That's why I am smart