- The possibility of losing the fight against ignorance -

How wide would you spread
your fragile wings
to reach for the sky
encompassed between the lines
of a book, rediscovered?

You need the ethereal pages,
(don't you?), eager to feed your mind
that's been starving for a lifetime
- more, in fact, but the skeptics will never
allow you to claim this -.

And here you are now,
battling against the breath of darkness
that so wants to blow out your flame.

You struggle.
Not just with legs, heart and brains,
but with an urge
that's like the will to build a hut,
despite hurricanes of hatred.

You scuffle.
Knowledge is not just
a fever, a foolish hope
of saving humanity
(and all life on earth)
made of simple atoms of carbon.

Burning to escape
the hostile winds of ignorance
and subtly induced self-hatred,
you'd set fire
to a world at loss.

Committing a crime (so human)
that also destroys your wings,
forever chaining you
to a barren land
- and mind -.

Your tears mean
that freedom of thought,
independence from dogma
and conventional behavior,
may simply not be meant
for this time on Earth.