A Former Ignoramous Pleads Her Case Poem by Mary Champion

Fumbling in the darkness,
I found a fragment of Truth.
In my mutant misunderstanding
I misapplied it to Reality
and so spawned deformed theories.

Lighter now…
in another life,
I have more insight at my disposal.
I have laid some of the monsters to rest
and come closer to understanding.

But I cannot deny what I was,
for all that I have been
is the bedrock of who I am.
Yet, there are some,
ignorant now, as I was then,
who would condemn all my works
and cast my spirit into the outer darkness
for what I was;
paying no heed to my journey,
to what I have become.

And the joke is
that they, in their past times,
have succumbed to ignorance,
as I did,
acted foolishly, even brutally,
as I did.
And for all that they are so precious now,
they too bear burdens of imperfection,
as we all do.

Have mercy on the things we were,
for they were necessary steps
along the road to what we are.
Forgive us brothers
for we knew not what we did then
as you know not what you do now.