Mouth parched

Licking my cracked lips

With a tongue roughed

Toxic relationships

So thirsty for knowledge

Knowing everything

Everyone acknowledge

You are worshiping

Superiority in knowing

Intelligence and wisdom

Need possessing

Corrupted system

I am in the know

But that’s not always

Worth the show

Worth the praise

Eating me up inside

Secrets, stories

Absorbed wide-eyed

Foreign territories

Knowing should never

Cause regret or sadness

Should I endeavour

Fixing mistakes from predecessors

Stooped under the weight

Having too much

Behind the gates

No one can touch

Fragile, delicate, breakable

Tiptoe around

My mind overflowable

Be gentle, don’t make a sound

Secrets strain

Liberty in their hearts

Endless pain

Breaking me into parts

Unrecognisable to me

Knowledge’s power

Absolute over me

Locked in a tower

“Mind forged manacle”

What did he know?

Spoken by a radical

Maybe not so

What knowledge did he possess

Over me which

Caused so much distress

Mind glitch

Knowledge is dangerous

In the wrong hands

Or it could save us

From our own commands

Knowing is a gift

Intelligence, wisdom

Cause a rift

In our system

You can’t return

What was given to you

Even if you burn

From what you knew

I can never go back

To blissful ignorance

Unfortunate drawback

From my perseverance

“Ignorance is bliss”

“Knowledge is power”

Pick from this

Which be your superpower?

I picked wrong

Pick yours right

Or your tongue

Will be as dry as mine