Wisdom Gone Missing

In a land of misery, anarchy, and cruelty, 

there lived a king who was never guilty. 

One day his little princess was in the garden 

when all of a sudden, 

something slipped from her hand. 

The princess sobbed and cried and said she had lost something grand.

The king panicked and set up a meeting with all the ministers in his kingdom. 

It was not gold, emerald, sapphire, or diamond, 

but it seems there was something called wisdom!

What is wisdom? Shouted the king; then his daughter replied, wisdom is something that makes you wise

and will help you to rise. 

Don’t worry, princess replied the king, we have power,

and we will use it to the best of our endeavors. 

We will deploy an army of huge scale,     follow every trace and trail, 

and find out wisdom from heaven, earth, or hell. 

We will use robotics and AI 

and use satellites to spy.

The problem is that we do not know its shape, color, dimension, or size; how can we find the wisdom to make us all-wise? 

But as this makes our princess sad,

we will hang posters everywhere and make expensive ADs. 

We will seek help from NASA, the Pope, and all Presidents worldwide.

We will make wisdom fall into our feet and twirl. 

We will send SOS to emergency services as we do not have much time, 

and not finding wisdom will be a crime. 

A huge grant will also be sanctioned, 

as finding wisdom will lead us to a great scientific invention.

Meanwhile, wisdom fell into a hole 

and was picked up by an old fat mole. 

It was smart enough to understand 

that it had picked up something grand.

So it pulled up wisdom, put it like a tiara on its head, and ran through the dark and dingy street lanes, searching for bread. 

Soon it was spotted by an eagle, 

which spawned upon it,grabbed it by its neck, and tossed it in a circle. 

Maybe it was wisdom or the bright reflecting light; the mole was able to free itself from the grip which was so tight.

Wisdom again slipped and fell into a burger van,

just in the middle of a heated oil pan. It was grilled, toasted, and fried. It went inside a bun and was served hot to the first person in the queue, who happened to be an electrician. 

He took the food and was about to take the first bite and swallow,

 just when he noticed something below. 

He took out wisdom from the bread 

and looked at it in dismay instead. 

Then, not knowing if eating it would be right, 

he threw wisdom in the dustbin, lying aside.

But soon, wisdom was picked up by a little boy,

who played with it like any of his toys. 

Then came his father, who took away wisdom; 

and he thought it to the kid’s new toy, phantom, 

and wanted to use it to kill his boredom.

This man was a new age scholar, and he tried wisdom to copy-paste, 

but soon, he realized wisdom to be a complete waste. 

He threw wisdom out of the windowpane 

and started shouting at his kid as if he had gone insane.

Wisdom now fell into the vanity bag of a woman 

who looked attractive and gorgeous in her new dress from Louis Vuitton. 

She peeped into her bag to look for the blush and highlighter to increase her glow 

since she felt a bit low in the morning. 

But then she found something in her bag that she had never seen;

scared, she threw wisdom on the table and left the restaurant as if she was no longer keen.

A hacker who was sitting beside her and was prying,

he took wisdom and thought it could be something valuable and worthy of spying. 

He tried to decrypt, decode and pass it through electromagnetic waves, 

but he could not find anything helpful even after experimenting for several days. 

Frustrated, he thought of selling the useless thing to some nearby store

and rather searched for wisdom that could win him prizes galore. 

After a long negotiation and bargain, 

wisdom was sold with no loss or gain.

The store owner placed wisdom on a shelf, which read new specimens for R&D; 

And at the very same time, the princess passed by the store in her black Ferrari Matte.

Seeing this, the princess stopped by and cried aloud to the shop owner; 

why are you selling wisdom? 

Astonished and angry, the shop owner complained, 

Madam, please do not blame us for something so gruesome. 

Without saying anything further, 

the princess reached out to the shelf and took wisdom into her palm.

She was the only one who perhaps knew that wisdom cannot be bought or sold, 

and yet it should be treasured more than gold.

Nor can it be built or destroyed with modern-day techniques; 

wisdom is something that comes from within.

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