Ignorance Is Division

By: Thomas Christensen

A man accepts truth
For as he believes
Through his thought processes

Of private biases and prejudices
And in the mornings
Sees his face in a mirror,

Truth, it stares back,
A long pause,
A long thought,

He thinks about his neighbors
Who are of a different mind
And have different colored faces

And are indifferent to him
As he is to them
A neighbor now for five years

But that time has made no difference
Still he does not know them
Nor do they know him.

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Thomas and his wife have lived in Mishawaka for over 34 years. He earned a BS degree from Purdue.  Thomas is a poet, writes short stories, wood carver and wood worker.  Several of his poems have been published in Word Play Anthology I (2017), Word Play Anthology II (2018), on-line at Shari Wagner’s (Indiana Poet Laureate 2016 – 2017) web site, Through The Sycamores (Issues: September and October 2017), and at Mojave Heart Review (Issues 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13). He has been writing poetry for over 50 years.  Thomas often does poetry readings at The Poetry Den, South Bend, and at Word Play Open Mic, Elkhart.