Ignorance

A reflection on the guilt of knowledge and the bliss of ignorance.

Ignorance is bliss

When you don't know

People need help

Ignorance is bliss

When you can't realize

That you are

Unable

To help everyone

That you can't help

Anyone

And you must

Walk

Away from another human being

That if you help one

It feels

Unfair.

If you help one

You must help all

And so you walk away... 

Ignorance is bliss

When you don't realize

That

You may have just

Killed

Someone

By walking past. 

Ignorance is bliss

When you can't understand

That

You are condemning someone

Acting

As if they don't deserve

The help they need. 

Ignorance is bliss

When you don't cry

About

How you can't trust

If someone is lying to you

About what they need. 

In a world without honor

Without trust

Without sense

We walk away

From heaven

And slide down the railing

To hell. 

All because of

Ignorance.

All because we’re

Ignorant.

But you won’t say so.

You won’t admit it,

That you won’t help,

Because you’re scared,

You’d rather help none,

Than feel the guilt of tipping the balance,

Because

You’re ignorant,

I'm ignorant.

So is everyone else.

We’re all

Ignorant,

And if we aren’t,

We want to be.