Education: Promise of the Nation

Education:  Promise of the Nation

                                                   

Overwrought

didaction,

accumulated

substraction

from each

disparate,

desperate

faction

placing

a grasping

finger

in the

pie.

 

Mounting

deduction,

ongoing

reduction,

producing

a huge

suction,

reducing

everything

to a

cry.

 

Myriad

encounters

countless

shouters,

far too many

pouters

whining forth,

“Not you but

I.”

 

And so we

find ourselves

sinking

beneath

layers of

stinking

refuse

piling,

reviling

the

ever-blinking

eye.

 

And thus will

it be

until not

you nor I

but

We

value

education

the promise

of the

nation

now

languishing low

but

wanting, waiting,

to be

lifted

high.