Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A Christmas Message on behalf of millions of children "Begging for a Seat in School"

Begging for a Seat in School 
Dr Abe V Rotor


A reproduction of an untitled painting by an unknown artist

A disturbing scene to Maslow -
     could he have been wrong?
What is self-actualization
     to the striving throng?

What's good is the Bastille trilogy -
     pillars of modern society:
equality, fraternity,
     liberty - sans dignity?

Motherhood words may come easy;
     they cannot be mistaken,
for the lips that speak of promise
     are easily forgotten.

And the world goes on as it seems;
     a beggar boy, its conscience:
lost youth, lost hope, lost future
    in the midst of affluence.

The door is jarred to full view
     and knocking wouldn't lend an ear;
indifference makes man blind
     or takes him to the rear.

He who feels for the needy
     with nothing to give is a fool,
in a world deaf to a poor boy
     begging for a seat in school. ~

NOTE: A student of mine from Iran at the UST Graduate School left this reproduction as a souvenir. The painting was made by an unknown artist, apparently belonging to the post classicism at the dawn of realism.

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