Shadow of Ignorance
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
As Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” purports, it is hard at times to hold people accountable when in actuality they choose to not know any better.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Shadow of Ignorance
by Odin Roark
How pervasive
This innocence
Turned weapon
Casting as it does
But silhouettes of its reality
The shadow of man
So often seen
So clandestine its verity
Moving over landscapes
Brightly lit with fear
Politics
Religion
Relationships
Business
On it goes
This outline of purpose
Hiding stealthily behind
Its backlit reality
Blind remains the perceiver
Trusting that which can’t be seen
Except by penumbra’s
Epiphanous delusion
Rare integrity
Steps from behind the eclipse
Revealing their true certitude
Risking that many perceivers
Will see such action specious
Leeriness of convictions
Dictates reason as shield
Aware mendacious agendas
Prevail as the given today
Thus argue the conscious
To excuse ourselves with ignorance
Is derelict of duty
Hastening the speed of covert influence
Rapidly paving persuasive highways
Where opportunity shows little honesty
Continuing to deceive our sense of safety
With misleading caution signs
Many speed through just before
Plunging over the cliff
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Thank you for bringing your concern to us. Maybe someone will act on what you have written.
Ron
We have abused this system in more ways than one, making one accountable is hard to do these days and times. Shadow of ignorance is in us all through love, selfish ambition, jealousy, envy, hatred..Gal 5:19
Life by the Spirit can direct us to the right Shadow to follow,Psalm 23..Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me..
Plunging over the cliff, I will wear a heavenly parachute!
I like your picture it made me think of "Twilight Zone"
Appreciate your words,
Teresa
budd