Burning Books

There will be book burning Somewhere in the world today. At Fahrenheit 451 Paper curls and browns away Wiping inconvenient views, Erasing trains of thought As those trapped words, Those expressions once caught In once pristine volumes Physically disappear. And only the approved Can be read without fear. But in time Those dictators of dogma find They can remove the physical But can't brainwash every mind. Again in time, Though they may not know why Enlightenment May make their hidebound ideas die, Until, inevitably Though we can't know when The fanatics and their fantasies Will rise again. All the freedoms So very hard earned Will be taken And books will be burned.