Blindness

People, young man, are stupid.
You won’t realise how stupid they are
until you understand
that you’re just as stupid as them.

You scrabble in the dark as much
when it comes to the meanings of things
as he who blamed a temple God
for his wife’s miscarriage,
and she who thinks she won’t be gay
if she’d just pray that sin away.

Or him who felt that science said
that other races must lay dead,
or anyone from dunce to polymath.
We all just wriggle in the dark
like worms fearing the child’s wrath
when its cycloptic eye funnels the sun
and brings out death, and makes it stark.