Insanity

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Insanity

This image sort of scared me

And the words:

If you have to read, to cheer yourself up

read biographies of writers who went insane.

I saw no humor in this

just fear

I haven’t gone that far but give me time

I’m on my way

I once wrote a hundred page story, all in rhyme - Danny True

Like me and you stuck in a prison too

That was the year I flew to the moon -

went partially insane when the spaceships came

Now this is reality - the keyboard and me

Light flies off keys making sounds like chickens pecking

Flecking feathers on me, and more

I’m not yet sure what we’re living here for

I hate shopping malls

and make-up

They take up too much time

Of course there's no such a thing as time anyway

Believe what you may

Today I saw a light behind a tree running

I was driving by the woods -  heard humming

As quietly as I could, I drove slowly to see

All I saw was me

No one around - no light, no sound

Frightened a little - feeling not so alone

I came home and wrote another poem

This prison is getting to me

You see…this is not reality

You think it is

But that’s what you’ve been told

By Freud and teachers of old

It’s all in your mind - Father Time

Actually you’re not even the one who thinks  

Believe it or not, reality is not what is seems - it’s a dream

We are the thoughts we steal out of thin air

I swear

Chalk it up to experiences, if you will

I prefer to spill words off loose fingers on black letters

I feel better when I write - more often at night

Drifting in and out of your thoughts (or not)

rather than in my own - alone

Because in truth, I don’t own a thing

Excepts maybe rings around the moon, Jupiter

and dreams of spaceships who came

the day I went insane

Linda (Danny True)