Education

Father, Mother

Provide me with pen and slate

I want to learn

Land is gone

Cattle and sheep are not there

Not there any more

What’s left?  Learning, learning

Father, if you had many cattle and sheep

I would ask for a spear and shields

But now –

I don’t want a spear

I do not want a shield

I want the shield and spear of learning

Father

The war of shields and spears

Is now ended

What is left?

The battle of wits,

The battle of the mind

I, we all want to learn

We have to raise our voices higher and higher

Saying that education is life and the key for the future

Yet it is and let’s do more and more

Become better beings, educated and later at our end, leaving a legacy to empower others

Let’s make it real and perfect,

And learn.