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Listen To me - The Madman!

LISTEN TO ME! – THE MADMAN!

 

 

Oct 15 2009 – Damascus, Syria

 

Ayad Gharbawi

 

 

Feeling feelings

That come from nowhere

Sinking my life

While my

Surfaces are barely reaching

Their stable mind

 

Soulful fright

Sparkles that dazzle, yes, but have no meaning

For myself

Go within

In my mind’s shredded images

That you call vision

But that are for my fractured Self

Incoherent and blurred

 

 

I feel only

Smiles of Sickness

Bare teeth of inconceivable stench

Exposing inner frailty

That just turns out

To be my own

Pulsating fear

 

I guess

I try

Trying to be

What I know

And what I know not

Trying to think

I think

I am

A fright

To you

And myself

 

Swaying sceneries

Make me dizzy

Yes!

The same sceneries

You people

That you people

Call your

Daily life

Some shine, and some not really

And if you are interested to understand

For my mind

And its Self

The results are fear

And meaningless

All over again

For me

 

My Tears provoke

You

But, why?

You say,

I’m paranoid?

You fools!

 

 

Who exactly are the persons

Do you think

That is, if you think

Look at my finger and where and at whom it is pointing

Again, I scream to you sane citizens

What are their identies

Of those and of them that are today and now

Holding all the thickest drenched sickening ropes

Meant for our fractured

Necks and Brains

Again and again?

 

When do you think

You may cease

This paralysing pressure?

That you apply

Upon me

Stabbing me?

Piercing?

Slicing?

Hurting?

Me

All

Within

My turmoil

 

***** is spinning

In my mind

Leave them –

Yes, them!

They are the Christs that are weeping

Hysterically

Moving me

Beyond sanity

While, where are you all?

 

And your polite rules are

Moving me

Way way far too much

For my stability

Polite subhumans

Flying

Make me

Flying

Make me

Flying from you all

From you all

Let me make me - fly far from you all!

 

 

Harrowing

Humans

Listen calmly

To my mind

Listen

To your own

Screams shrieks and all the rest

Before you think to presume to judge

Because you too

Some day

May suddenly

Come to be

Plunging in

My world!

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