The Art of Knowing

I may not be gold

I certainly don't feel like gold

And perhaps I don't want to be gold

I would like to be something like copper

Or iron

Hard

Unforgiving

Not malleable and needy

Because gold needs to be needed... and that is its undoing

Doesn't make any sense, but i'm sure you understand...

I want to be a rock

I want to be a dumbbell

Dumb yet strong

I don't want that knowledge that led man to fall

And I wish I could give it all away...

But I know

Some things

Some things that others don't

Others can't know

It's damnation

Knowledge

Isn't power

It is weakness

It makes you empathize

With darkness

Because you know

That darkness resides where the brightest light does