Begging for a Seat in School (COVID-19 New Normal and New Future Message)

COVID-19 New Normal and New Future Message

Begging for a Seat in School

 "... the world goes on as it seems;

      a beggar boy, its conscience:

  lost youth, lost hope, lost future

       in the midst of affluence." - avr

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,

but 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 old reproduction as a souvenir. The painting was made by an unknown artist, apparently belonging to the post classicism period at the dawn of realism.