This was inspired by the poem "Hieroglyphic Stairway. You can check it out on "You Tube". Just search "Drew Dillenger" and it will come up. I also posted in Facebook. In fact, if you spend any time with me at all, you can't avoid this particular work. It was and still is a great inspiration to me.
What did you do once you knew?
Awake aware
No place to hide
Knowledge, blessed but heavy
In the severe light of consciousness
What did I do once I knew?
I loved, all I could
I walked, through hill and meadow
I embraced, even they who despise me
I armed myself with plow shares and pruning hooks
What did you do once you knew?
Joyful terror
A mission in the learning
a long journey
that continues beyond mortality
What did I do once I knew?
Speak out
Anyway I could
In poetry
in action, expression, resistance
What did you do once you knew?
No place to hide
No cleft to shelter
Its laid out before us
no luxury of ignorance
What did I do once I knew?
Break the satin bonds
Cast off the chains of ivory
Trade the gilded cage
For the hard ground of freedom
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