If I Let You Into My Mind

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purpose that I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane. - Thoreau

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if i let you into my mind

would you leave anything behind

would you think me deft

would you be courteous enough to shut the door when you left

would you think me sick

would you feel like the victim of a cruel trick

would you run away in horror

would you think me sane or pity me twisted

would you want my number or have me delisted

would you want to stay or call the cops

would you sweep the floors, take out the trash and wring out the mops

would you veer to the left or merge to the right

would you celebrate your good fortune or mourn your plight

would you swim with the tide as it flows and ebbs

would you explore it all despite the dust and cobwebs

would there be plenty of rattling room or would it be too confined

would you make sure that the register was accurate and signed

would you be confident that your credit card would not be declined

would you find it a dump or worse a sty

would you discover it to be the mind of a totally different guy

would you find it defended by truth or overrun by a lie

if i let you into my mind

would you be satisfied or desire a different kind

would you applaud free wills

would you run for the hills

knowing my thoughts, would you want to even the score

would you don a straightjacket for less or disrobe for more

would you keep running or dare to look behind

would you eat the fruit and toss the rind

would you think me sadistic or kind

would you wander about aimlessly and count the hours

would you nurse it back to health and water the flowers

would you try to steal my cognitive powers

would you find it at peace

would you slip and slide on its spilled, cooked-up grease

would you dance 'pon the floors that were long ago cemented

would you fall through the cracks that were freshly demented

what would you find and what would you do

could you find the missing brick or the lost shoe

would you reattach the broken pieces with superglue

would you let in the light by lifting the blind

if i let you into what's left of my mind

Author's Note

"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

You got an awful lot of corridors in your mind Pete. I think I would be crazy to step inside. Sounds like a maze in there. Once in I might not find my way out:) Such a fun piece. And if I was brave enough to step over the doorstep, not sure that I’d contribute anything remotely positive. I’d probably add to the confusion:))

Chris

[Pete]

lol. you're funny. there's so much that we don't know about each other, we only scratch the surface. it would probably be like an episode of the twilight zone show - weird and strange. I doubt you'd add to the confusion, you seem pretty level headed to me.

[Einstein Noodle]

wow ............................. didn't feel an invitation until your closing, Pete .... i can't honestly answer any of the questions without knowing that mysterious, maybe terrifying mind of which you speak ... but ... just as any warrior going into battle hopes for .... that I not show cowardice ... that I stand by my buddies ... I would hope that I would lend light, lift the blind ... even open the windows to that mind for you ... but who the hell am i :))))))))))))))))))))
luv and peace
E.

[Pete]

lol. a sort of brave new world, eh? the longer i live and the older i get i learn that there is so much to each us. our interactions with each other merely scratch the surface but then again maybe that's what clorox is for.

[Einstein Noodle]

yes .... dear friend .. i totally agree ... makes me want at least several more lifetimes just to think upon it all. ... treasures are in our own rank and file ... all the intricacies, complications, ins and outs ... a wondrous kaleidoscope

[emmajoygreen]

Wonderful phrasing and meter, sir Pete! How true to life your words are, how two people have share this and that but not quite so keen to share that and this?!

Your mind is obviously a myriad place with a great sense of rhyhm and rhyme. There are ifs and buts, fun and logic in your words. In fact, your best friend, monsieur Thoreau, certainly had you working on full power as you created the above. Such fine writing, as usual, sir.

[Pete]

laughing. all you say true but don't we judge people and size them up from our observations without seeing the whole picture? we don't really know what has made each of us how and what we are. in his day, people thought thoreau crazy when he left town to go live in the woods to write and experience life at its most . basic. he loved nature and looked 'neath rocks and such. now, over a century later people admire his genius and individualism. to be misunderstood is a crime, now isn't it?