Ignorance

Ignorance,
Spreads through society like a wildfire through sage brush.
One single uninformed opinion,
Turned to fact by biased media.
Everywhere I go,
I can feel its touch,
Smell its stench,
And feel that it somehow attempts to infect me.
Like a virus floating in the wind,
Its victims increasing exponentially.
Living only in the darkness of deception,
Instead of emerging into the light of intelligence.
Deadlier that AIDS,
It will eat away at a man’s mind.
Knowledge the only cure,
But very few vaccinated.
Informed ones treated like a leper,
Cast away to a life of solitude.
Sense of belonging so great,
Own decision-making capabilities forgotten.
How many great minds are lost,
To the ineptitude of the masses.
Forget the right to think for one’s self,
Ignore what is right or wrong,
Disregard intelligence,
And to live in your own ignorance.