What is my everyday life but a struggle
to learn more about what I know?
After all that, at the end of the day,
all I know is that I know less
than what I thought I knew.

At the end of all major discoveries
I find more inquiries.
Lies laying in truths,
and both are so muddled
it's difficult to see which is which.

What you need to know,
VS
What you're manipulated into believing.

To the point where you cease to question anything at all.
Either for for fear of what might be learned,
or pure ignorance that you're being lied to.

My hope, my prayer, my passionate plea
for the world, for us all, for the human race -
is that we never ever lose our questioning nature.
Our drive to discover, to uncover, and to learn,
has to continue for us to endure.

I fear a day when this desire will be silenced in many.
Blissfully living shrink wrapped lives.
Carelessly carefree, carefully contained.
This time is near.
Or is it already here?

We must have faith
that some hearts can never be silenced,
some minds can never be tricked.
That some people will
never let our lights go out,
never let our originality be taken,
never let our freedom die.