Learning 101

Too many teachers,

too many preachers,

and God bless em all,

but there are very few reachers.



The knowledge you think you know,

isnt worth salt in bread

if you can display and show.



Ya see, as long as arm chair revolutionaries,

and facebook prophets, and you tube messiahs,

and corner store sooth sayers run ruffshod.

You will never sit still to really have an encounter with God.



Because Im sorry yall.

I cant get down with the get down,

if the fruit aint blooming around.



As you learn,

the one thing you must know,

is that you dont know nothing.

And the more you learn,

the less you know.

Giving real meaning to the phrase "less is more"



And while you bask in the waters of something you think is truth.

Make sure it has properties of the elements able to produce.

Otherwise its masturbation.

Feels good, but cant create nothing but a sticky situation.

Grace is the for the humble,

while pride is a cell

in the bottom of hell.



This is the reason kings are dethroned,

the reason most prideful and arrogant are alone.

This is the reason the wise lose wisdom,

the reason singers lose their rhythm.



So learn to create and create to learn.

all the while managing to be concerned.

For what are your words, if no life is in them?

Where is grace? Where is peace? Where is love?

Not in a poem, or in a conversation.

But in a life, in someone's hands, in someone's deeds.

This is learning 101, and all of its needs.



Richard J Wright (2011)