“Blindness” by Keith Basar

As a war-weary soul

pursues some form of finality,

the Light,

that lit the hearts of humans 

fell prey to sadistic shadows.

There, carnality found insanity it's logical end. 

And the heart

turning diabolical, devoid of heat 

became a psychological wasteland

absent of color or being.


It was here, in hopeless ruin

that Wisdom ushered in,

like a seed penetrating an unyielding surface,

rising out of disorder and disarray.


Wise ones, sages of the Light, 

appeared without announcement.

Scattered amongst men 

they were quickly cast as strangers 

misfits of the night.

Their jagged staffs, carved by paradox, 

brought piercing expression, 

of word and deed.

Using riddles and simple parables, 

they confounded the teachers of their day

whose hooded heads slithered

in eerie shadows, 

filled with enmity & jealous sneers.


With eyes aglow 

these wise ones walked in imponderable liberty.

Onlookers witnessed their radiant freedom, 

a childlike serenity

and the power of presence.

Less observant bystanders

kept their distance

meandering in mayhem

casualties of the labyrinth 


With leathered hands and steely eyes 

these lowly sages proclaimed the Light of Love.

Simple ones recognized their authenticity, 

but the righteous, blinded by fallacy, 

found only the allure of their own lunacy. 


It was here, Love lent its shield 

against the stones of ignorance and rapacity

where illusions dissolved like wax to flame,

winter gave way to spring

and life arose from smoldering ash.


People leapt with joy,

hearts caught fire.

For these wise ones were the repairers of the breach

beings of hope 

for a humanity who’d lost its way.


For the Truth, 

timeless and tender as it was, 

was again boldly proclaimed

fracturing the darkest of nights

bringing forth incomprehensible Light

and stirring many to arise from sullen sleep


Shadows vanished forever

and Light, the source of all that ever was or could ever be

again, lit the hearts of all


Surely a new day had come…


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