These revelations
These uprooted discoveries
Which have stemmed forward
Are a blow to my belief

This enlightened knowledge
Has darkened my light
The flame which burned with a passion
Now only flickers with disbelief

For Pandora's Box has unfolded
And simplicity is no longer contained
The skeletons in the closet
Have escaped past the door

Within the walls of serenity
Within the discipline of my mind
Now lurks a state of chaos
Of disordered rights and wrongs

The circumference of my reasoning
Is now sharply reshaped
For this frenzied toll of knowledge
Has paved a path of cobbled unknown

This gust of insight
Has left me apprehensive and recluse
For with each advance in wisdom
I've regressed within myself

Instead of steering forward
I'm fearful of what I may find
For Pandora's Box has exposed the fact
That I have been so blind





April 1991