Ignorance (Poem)

on a night stripped stark,
starless, I stumble in the dark.

Ignorance is
bliss,
there's nothing you know you don't know,
nothing you can possibly miss.

it can't actually hurt,
when your brain's buried in dirt.

Ignorance is
a lottery killer,
spinning slowly around fate and chance.

you only win,
when the truth stabs you hard in the guts.

Ignorance is
just a pretty word for stupidity,
and I was dumb enough to swallow a whole lie,

it nearly choked me to death on the way back up.

Ignorance.

overpaid with lost trust
& a guarded heart.