I do not flinch—not even breath— Am I a seer, or bait for death? My thoughts drift smokeward—dim, askew— A mind invaded, cleft in two.
I dance on wires through fractured air, Where silence shatters, wisdom dares. Through fractured mirrors I am hurled— Each step reveals a spiral world. I follow cries the ravens rend— Crowned by madness, I ascend.
“Crowned by Madness” explores the perilous threshold between vision and delusion. The speaker—part seer, part sacrifice—navigates a fractured psychic landscape where revelation comes at the cost of sanity. This poem is a descent into the spiral of insight, where each step shatters the known world.