paranoia quite near perception
can lead to poetry

but it needs critical evaluation
before it sets us free

lunacy can be loving
Romeo and Juliet

it’s allowed me to remember
although my lover did forget

superstition can confuse
but it also leads to insight

nothing in excess
neither darkness nor life’s light

madness if unharmful
creates whole other worlds

mine, like Don Quixote’s,
includes a woman-girl

reason has its place
science predicts the snow

but the heart has its reasons
which Reason does not know