The semester starts.
Fresh faces,
students eager to learn
or resigned to their fate,
they don’t know anything.
Yet.

Give it time.
Say, five months.
You will see these same students,
eyes now bright,
mind brimming with knowledge.
They walk out the same doors
that they slunk through not long ago.
They stride out now
confident that they know everything,
but they don’t.
Yet.