Teach Me

The kupukupu fern symbolizes sprouting knowledge. When the kahea to teach is given, will you answer the call?

Teach Me

Ignorance can be the darkest night

But we all have power to project the light

That emanates from within your soul

The knowledge of things…so long ago

Can never be lost, ignored, or denied

When we speak the truths of those who have died

And left their voices high on the hill

For all to see, hear, and feel

We are the future and knowledge is key

To unlocking the human, we all want to be

Education is wrapped in colorful ways

Opening pathways, we never imagined

Opening hearts to what can happen

When we all get onto the same paper and page

To erase all the hate, racism, and rage

We don’t need to stay ignorant or unconscious

That’s an excuse that reduces all of us

What you know you don’t know

Doesn’t have to stay that way

Choose to be filled with knowledge each day

Push further and farther than ever before

To change we must challenge the past that we’ve known

And open the door to the future in store

Its starts so simply from a talk to a book

Once you get started it’s hard not to be hooked

On knowledge, what power to envision and see

The life we can have, the potentiality

Of a world that protects the young and the old

People of color, those who love bold

A world that values the voice of the aged

And protects the land and the seas that gave us

The ability to connect and share our diversity

Without fear or punishment of losing our liberty

It starts with you, my sister and brother

this brainiac adventure we’re on together

to go boldly where many before us have trodden

education gifted them the knowledge to know

their value, their sacrifice, their desire to grow

the value of what it means to be human

the right to learn, to be heard, to matter, to count

is a beacon of hope that none can snuff out

that light that shines from your point to mine

the magnanimity of all you can be

starts with one single sentence…teach me.