if they ever knew ...

If they only knew
By james a. galgano

No quiet after math, the numbers never come out right.
They drift into and quickly exit with nothing to grasp onto
Caught in the quandary caught within web of DNA and society.
Labels and expectations change as does night into day without reason or clue.
Within the wonder of young minds expected to know what to say and do
If one answer wrong or word misread if a pattern can be detected comes the dread
Needing to fit that square peg of some prescribed historically or hysterically into round hole despite
No answer would be sufficient come to those searching algorithms for what they deem as only right.
How would that make a young child feel in a world of giant's technocracy nothing real?
Then on top of this you pile on years of distorted learned decisions by society.
Defining by those from the supposed chosen few or was it fools who determine this dichotomy.
Where those self-deemed worthies decide what was, is and will be and if it does not fit so exactly.
Due to their preconceived notions biology, culture, religion, race, or class
Which changes like shifting sands since nothing ever lasts but what good is that in a child's inquisitive eyes?
When all their lives have been built upon a castle of badly played or unplaced cards of teetering lies
Education was once to aid people's betterment supposedly egalitarian and true
Now it has become weaponized, and the only victims here are the innocent young if they only knew!