Exams Killed Humanity

It is close to the time when seriousness is
seen across board
Where every available space is replaced by
books suffocating boredom
And every one judge on same platform
Though our devils take different form
It is that time to judge the fish and monkey
On their ability to fly like a bird with the
intelligence of man
For not to succeed is labeled a failure
Then made to get through rituals and
counseling for a cure
Oya make we yarn man to man for this man
talk
Which exam fit test our different talent
Na wetin be the function of school –
Na to teach make the student memorise
Abi na to inspire make pikin fit imagine and
think outside the box
If na to memorise, na how that one go take
quench new improved wahala when we get
If na to help us imagine, which exam fit test
am?
Does success in formal education guarantee
success?
How many candles burnt to rehearse the
past guarantees the future
How many first class students rule the
economy?
Where is the first class to solve our
problematic economy?
A world of much discoveries and
advancement only few think
Men of great knowledge from being thought
meet as nations sink
Oya result don show, oga teach don stamp
am for wall
See as Papa Ochuko wan finish Ochuko with
knocks because him don gbala
Na werrin make am believe say Ochuko no
go make am for life
Na say because the boy cocoanut head no fit
cram plenty
Oya time don reach to blame all them witchy
o
Exam don destroy people destines and kill
their beliefs
See men when for rule industries they waka
street with pally
I ask for a restructure of the education
system
Let’s move away from “a passing”
generation to “an understanding/thinking”
people
So much books, much more impact and
nothing is changing
We write more policies and create greater
plans but yet failing
For we have learnt a lot of the past
And today are held back to our past
A time to move to open the brains of all
A chance to let dream dreams and
imagination given back to all
A chance to let us try all we were told NO to
because it has never been done
A chance to get a YES to that idea that
sounded unreasonable
We have seen metal fly, we have seen metal
float
We have seen gravity defiled; we have seen
connections without wires
The world has become a global village,
distance turned to nothing
Let’s hear the dreams of the kid, the
imagination of that child
If we say Let’s hear the dreams of the kid,
the imagination of that child
If we say YES to the absurd, we might find a
way for it to become the NORM
For whenever we say NO, the mind refuses to
forge a way
Exams has killed humanity,
Limiting us only to known paths, for not to
grow is to die
Even God dared to imagine and create