Blind

"There are none so blind as those who will not see,"
an idiom for idiots who lack the grace to grasp the
truth that stares them in the face. You hear it most
with reference to politicos, so famous for hypocrisy
and being hard of head, the fools. Today, in the company
of a girl born blind, we walked around her campus, no question
of her willingness to see, she can't, she never could,
a world of darkness that, unlike the case of prior statement,
was not created by her choice with hate, intolerance, and tyranny.
She has no eyes, an absence of the basic tools we take
for granted. Can you see? You'd better open up such
eyes as wide as light can enter in, absorb the truth, the spirit
of the laws you think can be defined by letters on a page.
There's so much more, so much.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013