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Academia's Lantern
Formal education,
requires a fence
With borders to confine,
and logic intense
Three letters that matter,
the I, S, and M
Each school suffixed over,
its member’s defend
Realism, Rationalism,
Idealism all…
Each name its own failing,
as verity calls
True thought has no class
or Academie named
It stands on its own,
the truth its sole claim
With knowledge in conflict,
the days turn to night
Academia’s lantern
—burned out in the fight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Copyright ©
Kurt Philip Behm
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