The Wrong Kind of Blindness

The are numerous types of blindness

There are varying degrees 

There are even those 

Which may be considered 

A blessing in disguise

This is not one of those

To say, I see everyone as equal

Regardless of race, creed, or color

To see no distinction of gender

To make no difference of religions 

To refuse to know our uncommonness

Is the wrong kind of blindness

On the surface

The words seem harmless

Perhaps, even magnanimous 

However, they cover an insidiousness

A blindness to the human condition

A refusal to accept and thereby, grow

To say, there is no difference

To quote the mantra

“All lives matter”

Is the wrong kind of blindness

It is a blindness to the hate

Which would burn the world

Your inability or refusal

To see or understand

An issue, centuries old

Perpetuated in anger

Taking lives even today

Is the wrong kind of blindness

Black Lives Matter

Brown Lives Matter 

Female Lives Matter 

Gay Lives Matter

These lives are in peril

No lives matter 

Until these lives matter 

This wrong kind of blindness 

Has crept into our politics and policies

It has crawled into our beliefs

We have passed this fallacy to our youth

We have embraced the lie

So long as we refuse to see

We have a choice

We can be part of the problem

Or we can be part of the solution

“There are none so blind

As those who will not see”

(John Heywood 1546)

Open your eyes

Open your heart

Open your understanding 

Cast off the shackles

The wrong kind of blindness

© Ron Simpson Jr. 

January 24, 2021