I am so psychotic

Friendship

I am so psychotic
 
a chorus of strangers singing through my veins,
each note a broken glass
that shatters the quiet of my ordinary day.
 
In the mirror, my eyes are twin moons,
pulling tides on a shore that never sleeps,
while the world outside spins in a dull, slow‑dance,
unaware that I’m already three steps ahead.
 
A laugh erupts—sharp as a siren’s wail—
and drops into the carpet of my thoughts,
where shadows grow legions,
and ordinary words become jagged swords.
 
I hear the humming of a thousand clocks,
their hands trembling in a frenzy,
telling me that time is a liar,
that seconds are merely the breath of a phantom.
The streetlights flicker like fireflies trapped in a jar,
and I chase them, not to catch them, but to watch them die,
for in each dying glow I glimpse a fresh nightmare,
a fresh way to paint the sky with invisible ink.
 
But there is also a tender softness,
a rose blooming in the cracks of my cracked mind—
the quiet hum of a child’s lullaby,
the soft rustle of pages turning in a story that never ends.
 
I am so psychotic, and yet—
in this chaos, I find a strange kind of clarity:
the world can be a cage, but my thoughts are the key,
the lock picks of imagination, the silent scream of wonder.
 
So let the storm roar, let the colors bleed,
let the night swallow the day—
I will walk this tightrope, barefoot on the edge,
and whisper to the darkness: “I am here,
and I am beautifully, irrevocably, alive.”
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  • 2781

    Wow, you hooked me from the start, and took me into a wild vision.

    • Friendship

      Thank you,2781, I'm delighted you visited and appreciated my poem on New Year's Day, which I wrote in a lighthearted spirit, aiming to be myself.
      Happy New Year.😂🤣

    • orchidee

      Now - you got just three brain cells, as I have?! lol.

      • Friendship

        Well, my friend had too. Thank you, Happy New Year. 😂🤣

      • soheil khodaparasti

        I like the line “the world can be a cage, but my thoughts are the key” the most because it stands out as a powerful reflection on inner freedom. By contrasting the world as a “cage” with thoughts as the “key,” your poem suggests that while external realities may constrain us, the mind remains a source of autonomy and escape, capable of reshaping confinement into meaning and possibility.

        • Friendship

          Thank you soheil, I appreciate you stopping by. In reading my poem, and your kind words. Happy New Year

          • soheil khodaparasti

            The same to you.

          • sorenbarrett

            A wonderful write of of blended humor and understanding of what lies inside. What is psychotic anyway but a loss of reality and we all do that as we withdraw within the mind in thought and imagination especially in fantasy. Here are so many lovely allegories and metaphors that are separate from reality yet in themselves transcend reality into illumination and as such the thin line between madness and genius. A fave Happy New Year

            • Friendship

              Thank you, my friend, you understood my theory🤪I'm delighted you visited and appreciated my poem on New Year's Day, which I wrote in a lighthearted spirit, aiming to be myself. Happy New Year, my friend,❤️😊❤️ Sometimes it's fun to let your imagination go wild.🤣😂🤪

            • Thomas W Case

              Intense, imaginative, and unexpectedly tender. I like how clarity and chaos are allowed to exist side by side here.

              • Friendship

                Thank you so much, Thomas. I appreciate you stopping by. In reading my poem Yes it was a kind of twist. Happy New Year's, my dear friend

              • Tristan Robert Lange

                Friendship, this is fierce and luminous. It doesn’t sanitize the chaos…it stands inside it and claims breath anyway. That closing declaration feels earned. Powerful work. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦‍⬛ Happy New Year, my dear friend!

                • Friendship

                  Thank you, Tristan, I appreciate your visit and thoughtful feedback on my poem, Tristan. I strive to be unique and authentic. Wishing you a happy new year, my dear friend.❤️

                • NafisaSB

                  yes you are truly alive to all that is going in and around you..
                  wishing you a blessed and beautiful year ahead...



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