Ignorance

Some men are afraid of ignorance They go about the land seeking truth Opening their eyes to the filthiest of things Wanting to know everything they can They will never be fooled Their knowledge will open others as well Where the truth lies, ignorance lies also Like a child longing for acknowledgement Some fight blindly toward it In hope to destroy it with their own two hands Instead, it blooms elsewhere and grows The truth shows us where the evil is It exists as we do and lives as we live If evil in the man's eye does not exist The absence of ignorance is a lie Some men instead embrace ignorance They stay where they are, content as ever Their eyes see and their ears hear Their desire to know is dull The current takes them where it may Truths are all but happenings Their present is their pedestal But the truth is still there Walking in a dangerous dark Calling on direction and value Like a starved child screaming for sustenance Like a father waiting to chastise his son Ignorance is never ignored by them It becomes their god Can embracing ignorance, then, be a sin? But even the treasure of truth can kill