The teacher from the north
came, according to the writer,
so that those who are blind
might be made able to see;
and so that those whose sight is normal
might be rendered blind.
What a puzzle!
Elsewhere, in a similar vein,
another writer tells us, the teacher
talks of people who cannot see
who offer themselves
as guides to others.
Our blind leaders are many;
their popularity in the present age
continues undiminished..
Some consume the captive inches
of self-righteous newspaper columns
with their superior wisdom;
whilst others utter their shrill
prognostications
over compromised airwaves
for an uncritical audience
which takes smug reassurance
in the confirmation of its prejudices.
Still others rail with conceit
from the house upon democracy’s hill.
Like the failed prophets of the past,
these various blind guides
trade upon cheap outrage
and even cheaper fears.
Leading their followers in deluded triumph
on their anxious path,
they arrive at a sad place where others
will be required to pay the costs
and where they will unwittingly
participate in their own destruction.
©2011 Ken Rookes
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