Doctors and psychiatrists still wonder
why schizophrenia appears in the late teens
or early twenties for most patients.
This is the time when freedom is first felt,
when the chains are loosed a bit, but not broken yet.
You're no longer tied to your parents' whims and control,
the schools release you into the world.
This is a fragile moment for a young person's soul.
So what do you do?
In a frantic frenzy you try to clean yourself up,
you tie up loose ends, a proverbial shower,
only to realize you have no real power.
Not over the aspects of everyday life,
but the temptations of sin that strike you each hour.
You learn about God, which the world doesn't teach
and you realize your true calling is just out of reach.
You work your little job, which you don't want to do,
to buy stupid crap that needs tending to.
It's work till you're dead, for scraps of bread
A bond of slavery, an adult-sized leash,
and once again freedom is out of reach.
Meanwhile your spirit is aching,
you're rejecting your calling,
and though your heart's breaking,
you can't be caught stalling.
Rejecting this notion, you search for solutions
Death seems the only viable option.
Social suicide, lack of proper hygiene,
binges of anything close to unclean
A downfall of sorts, but it's not the end
for then the law and health system steps in to reclaim.
They put you in hospital, strip you naked
give you a gown, and call you crazy
while keeping a file on you, play God with you,
inject you with pharmaceuticals, thus thwarting your destiny.
Their solution is slavery on a shelf;
a spirit eclipse, a kind of soul ban.
And they wonder why schizophrenics
have a 20-year shorter life span.
But they never examine themselves,
and are oblivious to their own coming hell.
For what they don't realize
is that schizophrenics are healers
Societal corner stones
and prophets and seers.
They're the cure for the world's sins,
the true remedy they don't want to win.
The ones to blame, the ones inflamed
with the holy ghost, but they choose not to listen.
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 3:41 AM UTC
Doctors and psychiatrists still wonder
why schizophrenia appears in the late teens
or early twenties for most patients.
This is the time when freedom is first felt,
when the chains are loosed a bit, but not broken yet.
You're no longer tied to your parents' whims and control,
the schools release you into the world.
This is a fragile moment for a young person's soul.
So what do you do?
In a frantic frenzy you try to clean yourself up,
you tie up loose ends, a proverbial shower,
only to realize you have no real power.
Not over the aspects of everyday life,
but the temptations of sin that strike you each hour.
You learn about God, which the world doesn't teach
and you realize your true calling is just out of reach.
You work your little job, which you don't want to do,
to buy stupid crap that needs tending to.
It's work till you're dead, for scraps of bread
A bond of slavery, an adult-sized leash,
and once again freedom is out of reach.
Meanwhile your spirit is aching,
you're rejecting your calling,
and though your heart's breaking,
you can't be caught stalling.
Rejecting this notion, you search for solutions
Death seems the only viable option.
Social suicide, lack of proper hygiene,
binges of anything close to unclean
A downfall of sorts, but it's not the end
for then the law and health system steps in to reclaim.
They put you in hospital, strip you naked
give you a gown, and call you crazy
while keeping a file on you, play God with you,
inject you with pharmaceuticals, thus thwarting your destiny.
Their solution is slavery on a shelf;
a spirit eclipse, a kind of soul ban.
And they wonder why schizophrenics
have a 20-year shorter life span.
But they never examine themselves,
and are oblivious to their own coming hell.
For what they don't realize
is that schizophrenics are healers
Societal corner stones
and prophets and seers.
They're the cure for the world's sins,
the true remedy they don't want to win.
The ones to blame, the ones inflamed
with the holy ghost, but they choose not to listen.
