What You Don't Want to Know

What You Don’t Want to Know…

It’s hard for you to understand

What you don’t want to understand

Hard for you to know

What you don’t want to know

Blinders are placed around your eyes

Because it’s much easier than seeing the world for what it really is

 

Your protective bubble

Has been placed on a pedestal

And placed out of reach from society

When in reality, you’re the same 

 

You’re the same as the

Complaining mother

Who just wants the best for her child

 

You’re the same as the

Underappreciated worker

Who just wants his due diligence

 

You’re the same as the adamant teacher

Who believes that every child

Has a special gift inside of them

 

The only difference between you, us, and them

Is that some of us have already recognized our similaries to each other

While others continue to play the blame game

And disparage the characters of those who we think are unlike us

 

I challenge us to look deeper than the race of the person sitting next to us

Deeper than the religion that sparks many feuds

Deeper than the sex and sexuality of a co-worker

Deeper than the candid ignorance that refuses to

Dissipate and turn into a beautiful swan

 

I embrace the rejected duckling

For I know the swan lies within

Beautiful thoughts

Flow from my mind

And attacks my lips

 

Take me

And do as you may

As long as you keep ill will

And harm

From all of my days