Academia's Lantern Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Formal education,
requires a fence

With borders to confine,
and logic intense

Three letters that matter,
the I, S, and M

Each school suffixed over,
its member's defend

Realism, Rationalism,
Idealism all…

Each name its own failing,
as verity calls

True thought has no class
or Academie named

It stands on its own,
the truth its sole claim

With knowledge in conflict,
the days turn to night

Academia's lantern
—burned out in the fight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April,2019)