AN ACADEMIC MILESTONE

  

Congratulations, Sir, on the Degree

For which you leaped through circus hoops to gain!

At last you are a Doctor; and that name

Will be a mantra for you as you seed

The field that you have labored in for years

As servant to a master whom you fear,

And yet whose office you intend to seize.

Your strategy is cold and circumspect;

For human intercourse is just a game

In which you score while others smart with shame,

Defeated by your scheming Intellect.

Your Title would make good the hurt they feel,

If you were but a Doctor who could heal.