Roots Of Ignorance



It has been too long permitted to continue on.
The effect invested of ignorance to spread it.
With this not to notice,
The limited benefits a kept ignorance is...
On the future of everyone,
To believe this done is fun to accept.
When the fun from this keeps,
More minds increasingly...
Becoming mentally diseased to expect,
What they do to themselves...
Will leave them behind.
To eventually find,
A meaning to define as being down to Earth...
They will one day discover,
Their contributions made to an advancing...
And a progressive society.
Has less value than the gossip.
Tossed back and forth on others to throw.
As if dirt with no worth.
Rooted in deep ignorance.

And this to do from on generation to the next.
Showing not only a lack of identity,
Or respect to have for themselves or others.
To assume what they do,
Deserves a return to give what is not given.
Will stay in their unconscious,
Thoughtless minds to perceive...
No matter how senseless their activities be.
Growing up without discipline to have it.
Frees them from being responsible.
As adults still doing,
Mischievous and childish juvenile misdeeds.
Should excuse them from being,
Held accountable from what they do.
Since they were not taught,
Their own minds to use...
To waste.
Is not a valid excuse to make.
Neither for themselves nor children to claim,
They and and also their children...
From birth had been properly raised.

'If you don't mind me asking,
What and who raised you and your 'kids'...
To act like fools.
Without a doing to be paid.
For a lifetime to perform as circus clowns!'

'Your assessment offends,
What we have done to entertain...
Our family and friends.'

'I apologize.
However you may not be aware of this,
But the circus no longer comes to this town.
And I am sure the clowns were paid to stay,
Clowns until they moved on...
To another town.
Yet you have remained to stay to entertain,
For free!
Seeking to have others accept and believe,
What you and your children do...
Represents being down to Earth.
24/7.
Refusing to learn,
Others skills to perform just as well.'

'That is your opinion.'

'I am also not the only observer!'
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Written on September 15, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 15, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCXDXXEXXFFGHIEXXGX XEXJDCKEBXIXIJXXXXXDX IXXXX LML XXNXANMEKJGXXX D H
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,131
Words 444
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 20, 21, 5, 3, 14, 1, 1

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