Birthed Greatness

I'm enrolled in a course,
constantly berating me with notions
notions of inadequacy and foolishness
implying and assuming foolishly
that I am just another one of "those"
one of them, that
doesn't understand what it means to be critical
doesn't comprehend the philosophical tools of great men
of great minds and thinkers, but
these articles and texts fail to realize
that I was birthed into greatness
these authors fail to comprehend
that I was born a peasant
but will die a king
and that one day, I will be writing texts
about them, these foolish authors
explicating the meaning of greatness
what it means to be a great mind, a great man

The average may be what they refer to
but I am still assigned these readings
to explain to me the meanings
I am not supposed to understand
to illustrate for me why
I must adopt their patterns of thinking
how their way is the truth, and
all others are inadequate, but
what these authors fail to address
I will make up for in true knowledge, insight
into what they only perceive
what they only construe as theory, one day
these silly experts will understand
that our generation will lay them to rest,
will dwarf their knowledge and eloquence
will take on new meaning, a notion
of which they assume they hold a grasp
and ascertain
but these foolish flubbleguffs,
whose prose compares to my high school essays
and dictation to that of a hundred other authors
will come to know
that we can and will
bury their ways thinking under the earth
and bury their way of life
along with it