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Poetry: Sanity

by Jishi Santos

'Sanity' is a scale of this world

that man has invented to call 'normal'.

Anyone who steps outside the boundary

of human judgment is classed as mad

or that loaded word, 'insane'.

Think again and again and again,

you human false judges of people's minds,

for the only One who can comment is God.

He gave the nod to his Son who was classed,

let us not say with these cruel classifications.

But he was 'different' and not of this world.

Anyone today not of this world of money and power

is carted off to some place where they claim

you will get better if you take our drugs,

instead of going where the 'drug of life' lead you...

....and they thought you were mad

for talking to the flowers and trees

and for going on your knees to thank

the Creator of all.

Yes they crucified you and yet they

were the insane ones who could

not control their own lives, so decided

to control others minds through psychotic drugs.

They reduced you to a shell of your former self

and they put your pills on the shelf

and when you threw them away, they

took away all sanity by the injections of death....

....and when they had fully controlled your life

they sank the boot in and still called you 'insane'.

Yet their own professed sanity had turned them

into monsters of the asylums they

helped to build on the bricks of

so called 'sanity'.

Well you know, all you shrinks of

any beautiful imaginations you killed,

by reading the 'book of boring

human normality', your day will come....

....and you will be insane with jealousy

at the heights your victims have reached

in the 'Universal scale of sanity',

where the more different you are

the more you are appreciated.

For you will be looking at the point

of a needle so sharp

you will lose your mind to fright.

For you have finally been judged 'insane'.

Oh, sanity of the cosmos live forever

with your kaleidescope of beauty

that only those who dare to profess

on earth will eventually see.

These lines are for all those who have suffered

under the crazy mental health system of all countries on planet earth,

that beautiful blue, ball hanging in space

we take so little time to appreciate,

except the dreamers who were classed 'insane'.

Yet their 'sanity' helped them to look at the

stars in the middle of a busy city intersection,

before the police van carted then off to the psych unit

telling the 'beautiful imagination' their sanity

was in doubt and needed to be checked

out by someone who had never bothered to look

at the stars or the waves or the birds or the ants

or the clouds or the winds or the sand on a beach.

But you know what? Your Creator knew what sort of

sanity was wanted to appreciate what was created

and thought the human definiton 'futile and pathetic'.

All who are different take no notice of the controlled world,

live your crazy dreams and your life will be so full,

full of all the right energy we were meant to cultivate

amid the chaos of a world flying into 'insanity' .

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