Pavement
Ignorance is like a cage,
a pavement sidewalk constraining the earth.
It is like a prison cell in which
human specimans are
controlled.
If one does not have the opportunity
to learn,
Then one remains poor,
unable to be freed to fly
to a world they cannot see.
If one has the chance which he refuses to take,
Then he has simply
caged
himself.
Ó 1999 by Sharlene Tan