Ignorant - January 27, 2012

[note: this was written during a writing exercise: we had 20 minutes to write something inspired by the word "ignorant". This is the result, unedited, exactly as it appeared when time ran out. You can read all of them in the waves category]]

Ignorant - Squiddy Geiger - January 27, 2012

The man with the hole in his head
Where reason should be, where
Knowledge would live
Wilfully chooses not to fill
The crevices where
Stupidity sneaks in
Working hard to avoid learning
About anything wondrous and new
Seeing only different
Or evil, threatening and crude

The man with the hole in his head
Where beauty would be, where
Reason should live
Sees strangers as dangerous
Difference as something to be
Stomped out, or repelled as
You would repel boarders

The man with the hole in his head
Where acceptance should be, where
Welcoming love would live
Is walled off from true knowledge
In a citadel built by the ignorant

Posted by Squiddy at January 27, 2012 08:30 PM | TrackBack