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The first moment that my eyes caught sight of you
You purred that low panther like purr
My world flipped what I thought was the right way up
Like a whirling dervish, I was just a blur

Then, as fast as you came you zoomed past me
The purr blurred into a parrot like shriek
North through to south are back where they belong
And the water flows again in the creek
A toast to the crazy ones, you are as necessary as bubbles in champagne.
The other day
I stood atop the old psychiatric center
and stared at the sky.
I marveled at the stars
and how close I felt to them,
while I was 12 stories of abandonment
and insanity and torment high.
I couldn't help but truly feel the
stars were like scars etched into the sky.
It made me think of the patients
who were left to rot
in the building I was standing on.
They looked so alive, yet
they were already dead.
© M.S.
10W
Tears, anger, sadness,
they just want to
be
alive
too.
Hey lovely reader!
x

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