lunacy

Twisting delusions of sane insanity

Spiralling, spinning through false reality.

kaleidoscope visions of bursting colour

welcomed madness’ arranged contours.

 

Open doors of unthinkable mystery

To worlds developed of pure clownery.

Endless corridors of bazaar magic

Rising, falling, warping, illogic.

 

Where time moves to its own accord

Where one moment your roofed, the next your floored.

Nonsensical babbles echo around

Grinning, giggling shadows surround.

 

When up is down and left is right

Forwards is backwards and day is night

When the sky is the sea and the sand is the wind

Then alas, in lunacy your mind is pinned.

 

Crazy is normal and people strange

The walls speak, their chatter deranged.

Never knowing which way is which

Makes you feel like you’re the glitch.

 

But when confusion swarms the mind

And sanity is left behind

When madness takes over control

Its not always bad to join the whole.

Author's Note

let me know your thoughts on this peice

Reviews

[victoria]

oh wow i really really like this! its so bizarre, but it makes no sense. it made me think, what if the people whos minds are really trapped like thins know more than the people who claim themselves to be normal? and what would it be like to be like this? the only thing i noticed was the last 2 stanzas are a little more rhyme-y than the rest. but thats not a good or bad thing, just something i noticed. otherwise, great poemXD

[Michael X]

this poem is awsome with great contrasts in equal balance, the lunacy is the
derivative in the equation that really sets the expression to height as
passion threads the spiral of thoughts together with stunning perception.

Forwards is backwards and day is night
When the sky is the sea and the sand is the wind

[Kate Hunter]

lol! really good. I love the imagery. I'm so releived I'm not the only one who talks to inanimate objects. ^_^

[Lyr J. Thirsk]

I think you wrote this like song lyrics, which I really like. I also like the use of opposites being right, "up,down, left right, good bad etc..."
to me, the last stanza was uplifting...but i think that insanity is what i want to leave behind, not sanity, when i get high.

--i thought this was really good emily!

[blbla]

cool! very Alice-y :)

[ChristianM]

The coolest poem I've read yet on here and right up my alley.
If my my brain were put on display it could be described like this. lol
I'm a paranoid crackpot.
Great poem.
I really loved it.

[Saburo]

WHOA seriously good

[BriAnna Wyble]

wow! this was absolutely amazing :) great write, i cant wait to read more of your writing

[Holly-Marie]

I really liked this. Strange, original and more than a little bizarre.
Different and very clever. So unusual. Thank you for the read.

[Steven Norton]

i love it! can i go there?