Opinions are
not bad in their own right
unless they’re
ignorantly and arrogantly arrived.
Take flat
earth theory for instance
which for
centuries was governing
among the common
and urbane
-allegedly
bright.
Opinions can
fashion lofty restrictions of light
-man’s wall
of cultivated vine and thistle
in need of
frequent assessment and clearing
to view a world
that surprisingly exists
somewhere
beyond your wrong and right.
Many stand
upon carefully formed soap boxes,
shaped by centuries
of discourses into the night.
Hollow on
the inside just like their ideals,
always
capable of attracting an audience,
-a mob motivated
by fright.
Our opinions
say a lot about us
as we stand
tall on them with all our might,
labeling
mankind – there’s only “us” and “them.”
Such a
strong agenda leads our old and young
to neglect a
worldview of brother and sister,
only to carefully,
yet blindly, shape a noose
intended to
fit nice and tight.
~2012 Vaughn
Wood
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