True Education

 

What’s more important?

 

To teach children work skills

Or to teach them to care

 

To teach them to count

Or to teach them to share

 

To teach how to win

Or that no one really loses

 

How to select a career

Or wisdom to do what one chooses

 

How to throw a punch

Or how to roll with the punches

 

That you must fight for your piece of the pie

Or that God does indeed serves free lunches

 

How to protect yourself

Or that there’s nothing to fear

 

To get ahead while you’re still young

Or how to enjoy each and every year

 

To make sure you’ve saved enough

Or to never hesitate to share

 

How to build a working wardrobe

Or never judge by what someone wears

 

How to select the right home

Or that you should carry your home inside you

 

How to get your way in this world

Or that no one should be able to buy you

 

How to find the right one to love

Or to love all unconditionally

 

How to achieve your goal

Or the art of learning to “Be”

 

How to stay ahead

Or that no one’s actually behind

 

How to judge a better man from a worse

Or that eventually we all do fine

 

To rely on our brains and perceptions

Or how so few actually see

 

That you should strive to do better that I

Or that there are no “I’s” - just a “we”

 

 

                    ---unAsleep