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Would you like to know?

What does it feel like?

When you are a prisoner of your mind?

And subject to its confabulated pranks

To wander aimlessly in your memory land

In an eternal state of existential crisis

Stuck in the twilight zone

Between consciousness and unconsciousness

Questioning each moment

Wait, is it really mine? How do I know that?

What is real, what is not?

Do you know what it’s like to wonder?

Minute after minute, hour after hour

Are the voices you hear really being spoken?

And the touch you feel? Is it really there?

Is the ocean just a reflection of the sky?

With the endless azure blue?

Are those Angels I see?

With the brilliant white and the golden halo?

Questions, Questions, Questions

Oh! Janus, the god of crossroads

Have Mercy and bless me!

 

 

I try my best, in this hazy maze

To search for the golden string

Wait, who am I kidding?

Nor am I Theseus, nor do I have my Ariadne

And the Minotaur of delirium lies ready

At the centre of this horrid maze

To devour my senses

And leave me befuddled and bewildered.

 

 

 

But in a twisted moment of lucidity

I don’t want this to cease

Why would I want it to end?

When there’s boundless joy

When I can see the world

In a Kaleidoscope of senses

And see the sounds and hear the colours

Far beyond the limits of the human mind

Where there is no past, present or future

But I do know that the joy is fleeting

As ephemeral as the dew on a rose petal

And I am to return to the mundane world

Plain, unidimensional and full of limitations.

 

 

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