Is knowledge heresy or blasphemy?
Is education a crime?
Classroom text books do not need to be changed
Into a dying doctrine where progress disappears
in a puff of smoke.
An entire generation is in bondage,
sentenced to sacrifice, tied to
old visions, imprisoned in mental chains
as time winds backwards.
Must they worship in a religious cemetery
where dreams have died? Where a post-mortem
Is held on their future, where the years
pass unlived?
Walking through the ruins of their lives
a sound can be heard of careers crumbling
into a featureless future
they cannot own.
They are obsolete women,
out of date, out of time.
They carry their hopes
packed into a suitcase
so they are ready to live a full life again.
Somewhere else.