Where education leads to submissiveness, not self-respect
where knowledge and acceptance depends on certificates
where push-out is called drop-out
Where repression breeds fear, powerlessness, alienation and marginalization
where dependency, not self-sufficiency, perpetuates with helplessness
where discontentment is the way of life and dignity is decried
Where the system blames the victims to preserve status quo
and the stream of reason is lost in narrow divisions
Into that ever-widening hell of majority and minority
O my God,
let my country not sink in the new century
