when i left school i thought i was through

tired of you telling me what i needed to do

what i needed to learn and what was important to you

when i left school i thought i was through

so i tried to function in your world with the tools that you gave

and i came to the conclusion this was the world you had made

i could construct a world of my own and dabble in yours as the need arose

but i could spend more time in my world than yours…but i had to learn what that world would look like….this time i became a student by choice………

i have been rewarded with all sorts of degrees in subjects you didn’t teach but are important to me………..i am a doctor of birds, flowers and trees……….a master of lingering so the world can teach me,the hidden world of snakes, ants and bees and i am never at lost to find something interesting where i can get lost in things only a few will come to know……..because they were willing to go………where there were no roads…….

when the desire to know becomes your friend……..you become a student again