They took his proclamation
of enlightenment
as a sign of madness
and he was treated
with derision
and imprisoned
for his crime.
He claimed he saw the light,
but they thought he was there to shine
and they were all blind.
He was no problem,
but a prophet always brings,
followers with him
and that destabilizes things.
No one likes to hear
that they don’t know
and least of all be shown
they’re wrong about everything.
He was acquitted,
but was institutionalized anyway.
The temptation was too great
not to medicate the mind away.
“I wonder how divinity
handles psychotherapy?”
They thought he was speaking
his own special brand of heresy.
In any other time,
they might have listened.
In any other place,
he’d be a priest,
but here,
folks don’t take kindly to “The Enlightened”,
it seems to threaten their belief
that they’re on the right side of the street.
How many madmen
really do hear God?
How many sick
just see the world anew?
Who should we be listening to,
to see what’s coming in to view?
He was Enlightened,
but now he’s just a case file.
He was approaching life
from a place of clarity,
but the mind replaced the soul
and the madmen have control
and that’s what’s really scary.
How many prophets
have we committed?
How many holy men
are strung out on their meds?
How many times,
did we maybe take a savior
and place electrodes on their heads?
It’s shocking to comprehend.
HG – 2017
Wow, that is powerful and scary stuff. I have often wondered myself how many enlightened ones were considered mad and suffered for their insight. Sad to say, I believe it was probably far too many.
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