Unlike the horse in the photo, we choose the blinders that we wear. Setting our course straight ahead it is easy to ignore the things around us. We choose our neighborhood, our schools for our children, our religion, and our politics that suits our thinking. We believe we are right and others who are different from us are wrong. We avoid the things that make us uncomfortable or challenge our thinking. As I wrote in an earlier poem, we often seek comfort over truth.
Blinders
Amish buggy clopping down the road
Horse looking straight ahead pulling her load
Not seeing side to side distractions might scare
Blinders on each eye make her unaware
On down the road and into the barn
Knows her place she always goes home
Just like us clopping down the road
Choosing our blinders pulling our load
Refusing to see what’s all around us
Distractions might scare us the news might blind us
Tell us we might be wrong in our thinking
With all our choices could drive us to drinking
As long as we can see straight ahead
We stay on course knowing we’re lead
Down the road of our personal choosing
We forge ahead even though we’re loosing
Unlike the horse who must wear her blinders
We choose to ignore all of our reminders
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Photo of Pennsylvania Amish Horse and Buggy – Dwight L. Roth
Roth Poetry 