Apr 24, 2017

Knowledge Deprived, Lives Denied


Knowledge Deprived, Lives Denied

                                     Gary Marvin Davison

 

 
There is a world

they’ll never know,

replete with

all that has been,

all who have lived,

all that portends

what they could

Be.

 

They’ll never know the

Big Bang

Cosmos

Earth

single cells,

multiple cells,

plants growing,

creatures crawling

in from the sea,

 

Homo

habilis,

erectus,

neaderthalensis,

sapiens,

that very name

asserting the

Power of Knowing

in order to

Be,

 

Humankind

domesticating

irrigating

propagating

thinking

creating

searching

Becoming,

 

For their

Becoming

is thwarted

by

Knowledge

not imparted

their

Cultural Inheritance

withheld.

 

Thus does the

promise of childhood,

the Becoming,

end in

mean streets

tawdry bars

prisons

places

where

Death

stakes an easy

claim

on those

without Knowledge,

for whom life is

denied.

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