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A Thousand Hopeless Braces

June 23, 2013
By ThoughtToner BRONZE, Karachi, Other
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ThoughtToner BRONZE, Karachi, Other
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"Perhaps the greatest outcome of all education is to be able to do what you have to. Whether you like it or not" --Thomas Henry Huxley.

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Suggest me a clause to unleash my pain
How ignorance creeps up to engulf in vain
Distorts the impetus I bear for change
Cripples it to hollow nothingness and drains
I seek to deliver my message out
To world to practice what thou
preach

You truncate budding fledglings and teach
That fools are we to follow the book's creed
Perplex me; oh compatriots!
Thy acts stand halfway thy laws
Astray I go in hours of wonder
A child like me quivers to grow
Out my seedling I'd have to bough
Alas! the dread; preference is now

© Trella R., Mountain Lakes, NJ

The author's comments:
I'm quite sensitive about the way people in the world keep droning about how maturity at 40s age is experienced. What people don't decipher is there are youngsters still who eye the world critically, or that much they have seen in life before time. I condemn and raise the brow still: if that age is the 'know-it-all' sort, why have our statesmen poured crisis into what we call nations? Why even an individual not conscious in his own regard?
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La Luna said...
on Jul. 3 2013 at 2:53 pm
I like how you have brought out the hypocrisy that exists in our country...i like the fact that the youth are aware of it, hopefully they are motivated enought to bring about a change, no matter how small it might be...