Unwarranted Pressure

The path to higher education is littered with obstacles Not to examine the physical make-up of the student But to exempt millions of poor children from a better life "Education is the key to success, " many of them are told Without education they are deemed to be failures Not worthy to be given the key to success This is a narrow-minded approach to life Life was fully established before education was conceived Look at the birds of the sky They are fully educated in their own way of life Not even a day spent in school They have mastered the techno-savvy skills of flight It's not a skill for those with low IQs Yet birds have proudly adopted it Look at wild berries They are succulent and richly flavoured Not out of years of education But out of the intrinsic knowledge Passed from generation to generation Surely humanity is not cursed To be without the ancient skills embedded in them It's perfectly fine to encourage education from an early age But first we have to provide resources Poor countries are struggling with the adopted systems of education Yet they are supposed to be competitors in a globalized world Students in third world countries are put under immense pressure To excel under squalid conditions Inequality, for some, begins in the classroom Without proper grooming and resources They are already marked for the trenches of this world Without proper allocation of resources Inequality, human trafficking, poverty and diseases Will continue to threaten the pedestal of hope Humanity will never progress beyond selfishness and hopelessness Into the vast terrain of consciousness Where unconditional Love is a basic necessity And sharing of resources is the only achievement worth praising ©Kenneth Maswabi