Lost And Found

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. - Thoreau

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madness visited

leaving its jacket behind

the fit was profound

Author's Note

"If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Yellow Butterfly]

‘madness visited
leaving it’s jacket behind
the fit was profound’

‘They’ say that there is a fine line between the sane and the insane, and even in that realm of madness, there are degrees of reason, fluttering moments of clarity and the truth.

Having experienced a love one living with schizophrenia…I felt your words….deeply

You got me good with this one Pete…:)

YB

[Pete]

thank you. the older i get and with the world going the way that it is, i often find myself wondering who is sane anymore and what it means to be sane ... :)

[Ruth]

Never good being in for so long...humans were meant to be active not stationery...

[Pete]

true. this covid thing has made us all reexamine our ways ... :)

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Oh how I have worn that coat a few times in life. It's like dancing naked on a thin metal beam suspended thousands of feet in the air. Death has never felt so liberating. Wonderful and relatable poem my friend.

[Pete]

thanks carlos. how else would we know what sanity is unless we try on the jacket? it's like when we we were children and our mothers told us not to touch the hot stove - we touched it to understand ... ")