science of the psychotic

There I was

Curled up beside her on the couch

She was the person who shut out everything else

For some good old fashion security

But at the same time

The ideas she introduced in her stories, shook me

To my very core

Made me question every little thing I thought was true before

Tonight though,

Bring it on

I’m ready

…

“Listen up,” She said

as I lay beside her wrapped up in the warm comfort zone of her arms,

“I’ve got a tale to tell tonight”

…

The instant these words drifted through the air

To me

I was no longer here

In my mind I was there

Standing

In front of a huge building

Bars at the windows

Of padded cells

Straight jackets hang like prom dresses in the closets

Obviously an asylum

…

My natural instincts tell me to be afraid

The clinically insane have often infiltrated my brain

.. scared the living shit outta me

…

but from somewhere, everywhere, and yet only in my head

that familiar comforting voice, spoke some unknown narration

and this is what she said

…

this is not the place your mind makes you to believe

you fear them because they don’t think like you do

but is that such a bad thing?

…

I approach the entrance, still cautious

I walk down an empty hallway

To double doors

with the only windows with lights on the other side

I enter

Only to find a semi circle of the hospitals patients

No straight jackets

Just them, sitting in their chairs, like

thrones

…

The voice states this:

Each person here believes they are the only sane person on the planet

And so, they are labeled INsane

But the fact is, they may have grasped a truth that few ‘normal’ people ever have

…

And here’s the good part,

The part where the music either starts or stops

Depending on which would be more suspenseful

…

These people understand,

That each of them is an individual

They don’t let the world around them tell them who to be

They KNOW

We all have ourselves to find and discover

What fits

For us

…

I sat down on the floor

Just listening

…

This counsel of ‘fools’ may have been the greatest meeting of minds ever in history

…

Then,

It stopped.

…

I knew it was time to leave

As I did so the narrators voice returns

…

“you see, it’s your job to find out what’s true for you, what YOU believe, once you do that, nothing can shake you, nobody can question or affect you.”

…

I slowly awoke, still in her loving embrace,

She asleep also

…

My thoughts went over what had just happened

And I thought..

For myself

Perhaps for the first time ever