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Do you see the boy? Skipping and jumping under the sky? Laughing like he has no fear in the world. Holding hands with air. Do you notice the way he moves? The way his feet jerks and grooves? Moving so unnaturally, Laughing like there's no end in things. Lovely schizophrenia, isn't it? The way it came from his mother? The way he cares for someone else Suffering from the same mental illness. Delusions, fabrications, dreams that is unreal. the way that he perceives the world makes me really feel. Uncomfortable, yet I don't think that he asked me to feel Pity for his condition. Laugh of a thousand children, Asking for a better future, Those ones that seek the asylum, And look forward for capture.
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Sep 9, 2019
Sep 9, 2019 at 9:20 AM UTC
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Do you see the boy? Skipping and jumping under the sky? Laughing like he has no fear in the world. Holding hands with air. Do you notice the way he moves? The way his feet jerks and grooves? Moving so unnaturally, Laughing like there's no end in things. Lovely schizophrenia, isn't it? The way it came from his mother? The way he cares for someone else Suffering from the same mental illness. Delusions, fabrications, dreams that is unreal. the way that he perceives the world makes me really feel. Uncomfortable, yet I don't think that he asked me to feel Pity for his condition. Laugh of a thousand children, Asking for a better future, Those ones that seek the asylum, And look forward for capture.
Public opinion on mental illness is changing, but is it for the better?
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14/F/Singapore
Sep 9, 2019
Sep 9, 2019 at 9:20 AM UTC
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