"A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste", poem

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste

They said a mind is a terrible thing to waste

You’d be the disgrace stuck in one place

With ignorance written across your face

Opportunities come and you let them past

Stuck in one spot: going nowhere fast

But I can’t relate to that

See, my intellect leads to elevation

That brings forth elation

I try to supply education but you don’t hear the conversation

For my mindset you can’t find yet

Unless you get a translation and acquire relation

At hand but

You don’t understand cuz

You ain’t get da oxymoron in da early stanzas

But I’ma stick to thetopic

And correcting intentional errors is not it

It’s that you think you’re hot because you cop whips (cars)

And got kicks (shoes)

But you need to stop it

And get the pic I’m tryna illustrate

Into your minds these words shall penetrate

Observe my ways and emulate

Maybe then can we associate

Because you’re wasting my time if you’re wasting your mind

And those are two things you just don’t wanna waste

C. C. McFarlan

A college friend of mine wrote this poem several months ago. As I was reading through her poem book, I stumbled across this one and found it very interesting. I felt as if it applied to my life because I’ve always been known as a procrastinator. I’ve been known to waste time and just not get my work done until the very last minute instead of working ahead of time or getting things done rather than sitting around and doing nothing. I agree with the poems author, because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. The mind is a marvel of science and is always developing. Instead of letting it be effected by atrophy, we should educated and further progress its advancements with knowledge. Procrastination hasn’t really hurt me in the past but in college it can be deadly to your grade in a class. In the future, instead of wasting time away or letting my mind go to waste, when I have free time I will do the work I have. Another great quote that I’ve been taught is, “Don’t put off what you can do today for tomorrow.” With this being said, I’ll continue to try to do things ahead of time as opposed to rushing through them the day before or the day its due.