Old teacher! <br />You said... <br />If you're going to be <br />A street sweeper <br />Have the decency to be <br />The Oscar winning street sweeper! <br />Old teacher! <br />You said... <br />If you're going to be a mother <br />Make sure you mother them <br />To be responsible patriotic Africans! <br />Old teacher! <br />You said... <br />If you're going to be teachers <br />And doctors and lawyers <br />If you're going to represent Africa <br />In the sports arenas and the world forums <br />Do so with pride and dignity and brilliance! <br />Old teacher! <br />You said.... <br />Be not like the plastic teachers <br />You see whose lessons lack the verve <br />And the soul and the love <br />Gloom is what they confuse with <br />The noble art of teaching <br />Don't be like them and <br />Their easy to forget lessons <br />That are without depth <br />And it reflects in the backlash of their pupils <br />Ad they loath their weak teachers <br />They don't respect them because <br />They are false teachers<br /><br />BrokenHeartPheko Motaung<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/africa-poems-gloom-is-what-they-confuse-with-true-teaching/
