Lessons Lost

Tame
 the sheep,
        the mule,
the child 
         and the earth.

Learning;
   the alphabet,
 that x = x,
  the zither,
the frail earth
 and that Jesus died for all of our sins
   except Patti Smith's.

Teaching;
  dishonest lessons to my children
                             and my earth   
        but they listen and believe
 what they are told.
     x = nul.

Time is repeatedly mismanaged
  so is logic and existence.
     We understand so very little
  and still teach what we know.