Lost Civilization

By

Obododimma Oha

Where art thou, now, university

At the beginning or the end?

In the Republic of Freedom

Or the Kingdom of Tyranny?

What are you, now,

A Community of Knowers

Or a Community of Blockheads?

You are

That lost civilization

And also the ambitious future.

You are the wisdom

That conceals foolishness.

Is that a chorister’s robe

That I see

Or a gown that teaches the town?

Look, university, be the horizon of insight

Untainted by ignorance!