Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Discernible ‘yes’ from word-keeps on high
Merriam says it’s clear thinking between
--confusion (sounds bad), or insanity (worse)
Those on the edges can feel what I mean
Our grand word-keeps really must justify
The mean in this meaning,
out-bounded by boundary,
lined-out by this outline,
now liminal quandary
Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Webster, my friend, have you deep-thought this through?
Sanction is clear from this definite frame
-- English agrees, but is that important?
English is not the sole tongue in the game
Here is a series of queries for you
Can you margin it all out?
The hurt and the fallout?
For people who crawl out
adrift from your callout?
Not-lucid has rescued me more times than countable
And really not-lucid has caught me mid-fall
Through memory patches of pain insurmountable
Muddling dull was the best break of all
The cogent, coherent, and clean-comprehensible
Can open tight *****-capped emotional stores
Unprocessed experience, only defensible
By wool-wrapping windows, and baffling doors
Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Politely diverge from Merriam’s word
Webster’s position humanely disclaim
--Gratitude-pour over fuzzy and haze
Cloud-foggy, mind-misty, heavy, mush-brain
Rational praised, but when needed, deferred
Hail shields of deep feeling
all lucid-real reeling
rewinding revealing
to heel allows healing
‘Lucid? Not always’ the kindly refrain
Outsiders rest on the inside again
And never confuse, confused and insane
©2024
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge (lucid) date 27th September 2024. “Showing or having the ability to think clearly, especially in intervals between periods of confusion or insanity.”