The ten words

Many many years ago a child was born profoundly blind. His childhood and youth was spent deep in thought until he had discovered the secret to true happiness. At about the time of his discovery Braille was invented. He spent his early 20’s mastering the language of dots until at last he was able to write down his ten words.

The ten words however only made sense to those people who were also born profoundly blind. The power of the ten words was such that no-one who understood them would ever pass them on to a seeing person. It was subliminally written into the text/Braille that the secret remained with those who lived in the perpetual enlightenment that was blindness.

Many men tried to coerce blind men into reading and passing on the secret. No blind man ever succumbed to the temptation. Other men plucked out their own eyes and learnt Braille in the hope that they would learn the secret; a pointless exercise as pre-natal blindness was essential. Even a child, blinded at birth was excluded; for the sight of the red glow of sunlight through the womb was enough to exclude the knowledge.

Those ten words are in the form of a Haiku.

They are known to few men.

Those men ain’t telling.

I intend to find out what they are and thereby attain true happiness.