Prodigious minds
Burning inside
Chasing their lives
Drowning in tides
The mind of a genius
Fungusified
The madness has died
It's unjustified
Because 'they' never learn
That it's not all about grades,
In fact sometimes it never has been.
But if you were to invent
Some ingenious contraption
You would become famous, you see.
So many bright minds
But most of the light died
On the way to adulthood, from their teens.
I've never felt pride
When my A's, they shine
Because it hasn't a link to me.*
Side note:
Just a little poem to rant about how unfair life can be, when your brains are only thought to be clever due to your grades. Think about the ones who basically created the subjects, added those complicated formulas they thought up. They were thought of as idiots, some of them. Until they made mind-blowing discoveries. I
recently watched this video called 'don't stay in school' by boyinaband on YouTube, and despite its name, it's actually a pretty intelligent argument. I fully agree with its statement. (The guy explains in another video that he didn't literally mean don't stay in school, it was to strengthen his point and catch the attention of anyone interested.) The video argues about how some things we learn in this education system are completely pointless, and useless if we compare them to other things which will actually help us prosper and understand this for our future.
-I'm not calling myself a genius or prodigy,
but others seem to think of me in that way, which I hate.
I'm horrible with titles...