Education is Key by Mr. Odel Gonzalez

Reflections Magazine: 2009 Poetry Contest Second Place Winner, Odel Gonzalez
with Professor Sarah Garman

If knowledge is power, then education is key.

If knowledge builds towers, then education builds me.

My future, my life, however I want to be,

Only depends, on my will to achieve.

Don't want to be a statistic, my dreams reveal more.

Don't want a hard living, an easy way to earn more.

As long as I study, as long as I learn,

Then a change in my life will be on the road I turn.

It only takes common sense for one to be wise.

It only takes effort to clear darkened skies.

Education is future. Education is key.

Education is the means on which I build a better me.