He brushed me off with his eyelashes and said,
"You are an idiot—you know nothing!"
I replied,
"What you know is what everyone else knows.
But what I know is the shadow world—
the one you mock,
because deep inside,
you sense its reality laughing at your understanding.
You call it ignorance,
but in truth, it is your humility—
disguised as arrogance.
You humiliate what humbles you,
because what you do not know
mocks the very thing
you are so assured of knowing.
You protect yourself
with the illusion of certainty,
but certainty itself
is what mocks you most."
