Poetry - Ignorance is NOT not Bliss?

Now I am no poet or even an english student. I just like making things rhyme and writing down my thoughts so here is a little poem I wrote when someone asked me whether I thought ignorance was bliss.

Everyone says that ignorance is bliss

There’s something about that incompleteness

The missing words, the empty gaze

Like being lost in a giant maze

It leaves you happy, content and fine

Not having knowledge which is totally mine

How can something you don’t even know

Make you feel so blissful

What if I flipped the story around

Although this may sound a little profound

But people around you know it’s true

Everybody............... except for you

They all are laughing behind your back

They could have learnt to use some tac

This noise they make leaves you confused

While everyone else is not so quietly amused

What have you done to make them stare

What can they say to try make you aware?

Funny thing ignorance can be

You could just stand there awkwardly

Or not give a thought about what you hear

You’d never have to shed a single tear.

What do you think??

Comments

  • you are smart. I like yor words. I am thinking that I can learning from you, thanks.

    goodluck!

  • I think it's beautifully done. Wonderfully worded. Well expressed.

    ... I might have tried to fit in "incompetence" rather than "incompleteness" if it were my poem... but, I'm a bit standoffish I guess.

  • I think you should cut it down, like...

    "Ignorance is bliss"

    incompleteness

    missing words

    empty gaze

    giant maze

    etc etc...

    *tact?

    only a suggestion..and I do agree with the message.

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