For education is important...

For education is important,

It is with pride I have received them,

Advantaged at birth, inequity's the game;

Sailing across for a place in the hall of fame,

Literacy for many or varsity for a few-

Who is to blame?

For education is important,

Plush jobs that follow, albeit dull, chased us;

All busy to board the already crowded bus,

Shoving the elderly co-passenger to win a better seat,

To disembark at the next stop-

To tell the world of our feat.

For education is important,

It was prudent to have a working filter,

That'd shun the waste and out of the gutter,

They're convinced that was better for the greater-

For they never thought that the best would someday

Join hands to write a letter-

“For education is important,

We lions saved it for us, let the cows munch on grass,

Extracted the gold, left the brass,

You might call us crass, we'll let those comments pass-

We built hospitals, invited patients over,

Without employing a nurse!”