To Be Wise Poem by Kelly Iyogun

In our search for wisdom
We drunk from the cups of wise men
Left in thousands of books,
Yet it seems we not as drunk as they said we will.

In our desire to be wise
We dug well on the land of experience
But our hoes and axes were dulled
By terrain we find ourselves
alas it seems we aren't different from when we started

To quench our hunger for wisdom
We have prayed,
We have wished
Read from our Holy Books
Asked our elders
Yet our societies insists we must first be young and stupid to become old and wise.

Must we truly be?

©2018
KingKellee
(God of Poetry)