Intellectual Casualties

O ye dead ones of conceptual suicide
The mental causalities of professionalism
Having nothing new to offer
But awaits the intellectual undertaker

You are members of the intellectual terrorism gang
Always hooked on idea-wrecking ventures
Worshipping the past of dogmatism
Yet offering no substitute for the present

You impede creative talents of progress
By resisting any doctrinal change
Adjustment to the new is impossible
So delay decisions by playing the ‘No’ game

You ritualistically engage in a dance with dead ideas
Fearful of looking new thoughts in the eye

In the brightness of day, your sight is open closed

Please! Let knowledge reign over your ignorance!

© Kofi Adu Domfeh