Their Ignorant Lives

Political poem about Ignorance and how people go through their whole lives being ignorant

Their Ignorant Lives

I watch them, shuffling past

As they go through their lives

Not knowing, not realizing

Going through their ignorant lives

As I look around me

Seeing the lumbering masses

Never knowing, never realizing

How ignorant they truly are

They are kept in this state

Stupefied and desensitized to the world around them

They cannot know it

They cannot open their eyes

They refuse to remember the past

Thinking it is not important

But it will continue to repeat

Until they remember it and learn from it

If we shut away history, consign it to be forgotten

History will repeat itself

First as tragedy, then as farce

And back again until the end of time

They cannot perceive the world around them

 Unless seduced

By false promises and propaganda

Until something uses them 

The eternally exploited

The eternally ignorant

Not knowing about the world or themselves

Simply pumped full of self-fulfilling lies

Living a life of ignorance

But it is not bliss

For ignorance is not truly bliss

Ignorance is death

They are the eternally exploited, eternally ignorant

Eternally dead

And as I walk past the shuffling masses

I feel I must revive them

Or bury them