Making Sense Out Of The Insane
December 23, 1998
There are many things that I have needed
And there are things that other people call mere wants
But to me they are the same thing
I have had too many things happen to me
And I am supposed to take the good with the bad
And I am supposed to see the silver lining for every cloud
And sometimes I can’t see the silver lining
Sometimes I only get to see the dripping blood from
The poorly cut wounds
that haven’t had a chance to heal
That’s one of the things about modern life
Sometimes there is no happy ending
And sometimes you can look and look, but you can’t find it
And sometimes making sense out of the insane is pointless
Because sometimes the insane starts to make sense
Maybe you can’t understand that
Maybe you can’t understand that because you haven’t done what I have
And you haven’t gone through what I have
And you haven’t learned how to bottle up all the hate
I don’t know where the silver lining is supposed to be
and I don’t know where to look for the things
that are supposed to make me happy
Because I’m getting pretty tired of looking
I’ve changed all my goals in life
The short term ones and the long term ones too
And after a while that has an effect on you
After a while you start to feel like a prisoner
who is just getting the life kicked out of you
By a bunch of other prisoners who for the moment have the edge
While all the other guards are paid to look away
It’s funny how the prisoners get the coin from their
Drug deals to pay all the good guys off
When you start to see that
And when you start to feel like that
the line between sanity and insanity becomes blurred
Copyright Janet Kuypers.
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