In the deep recesses of ignorance
lies a cowering spirit,
an inner self afraid of
a vast universe, an infinite array
of colors, styles and lives
bursting with joy and fulfillment.
Anyone with intellect is seen as
an elite, someone to be mocked
and ridiculed, even shunned for
daring to rise above the common man.
Yet the voices calling for
an end to the accumulation of knowledge
know exactly what they are doing.
These bastions of psychobabble
have siphoned every drop of sense
from a system meant to
show everyone the way toward
enlightenment and purpose,
without the shameful sidetracking
into bigotry, bias and backdoor deals.
It is open season on open minds.
Do not let the clouds of deceit
rain falsehoods upon us all.
Let sunshine define the decades to come.
Brett Mattison
uponthewingsofnight 