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You Are Insane

You

Are untamed

Reckless blood and wit intertwined

A twisted, brazen
 mind.

 

Your mind

Is so clearly different

It leaps and soars, so acrobatic

And your thoughts appear to me so hazy and enigmatic

Your mind is simply not pragmatic

Yet your perception knows no bounds.

You have thoughts that come close to insanity

That sometimes flow in the form of profanity.

  

Your spirit

Is either very high or very low

Up and down, to and fro

There is no in between for you

Some say you are stupidly crazy

The dull ones say that, the ones too lazy

To see beyond the rugged surface.

The subdued and vapid ones

Will never understand the magnetism

Of your sweet, exquisite devilry.

 

On your face you often wear

A fierce and restless stare

A wan, discontented expression

As though you're always awaiting

Something bigger,

Something better.

 

You

Are fluid, swaying fire

And I will never tire

Of watching you burn

I can see you brain boil and churn

As it reels into into areas of
 madness and chaos.

 

Your psyche

Is an endless field of dark reverie,

Of fear and vagary.

 

I know your night terrors

Your savage dreams of death

Screams and bated breath

Unutterable visions

The grotesque world of horror thats spins itself out

And dribbles into your drawings

All those creatures, skeletons gnashing and clawing...

 

You

Are gentle and thoughtful

Yet you are terrified

Of this dark thing that sleeps within you.

 

Your eyes - they’re stunning

They’re tempestuous,

Wild, like some fierce animal peering out of a rusted cage

Oh, your eyes

They are something beautiful, but annihilating

Like Autumn crocus flowers, innocently poisonous

Lids splaying delicately like its violet leaves.

 

You are tall and strong

And uncontrollable,

And your smile

Is the biggest paradox I've ever encountered

Childlike

And fatal.

 

You are not

A creature of the commonplace

You are not a slave of the ordinary

You are not a mindless drudge of the mundane

You are free.

Or bewitched, what's the difference

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laetitia
French
Published
Mar 10, 2013
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