Created are the atrocities
Inventions of the mind
Beyond our control
Within check at times
Practices can manage
Chemicals may heed
Chemistry is a riddle
Understanding is the need
Past will perform
Vivid stage play in memory
Present screen play in monochrome
Flushed by what used to be
Instability is the writing on their paper
See how it will go…
Take two, then come back later.
Answer to a question not known
The drugs and festering madness
A hope the physician defined
Temporary reassurance
for such a fragile mind
A world of normalcy
What every schizo longs to have
Science and religion define our good
and the schizo as the bad
I once heard a patient in the waiting room of my psychiatrist say, “It’s not good to be sick.” He said it in a tone of deep shame, as if it were his fault, something he brought upon himself. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Thanks for writing this fair treatment of schizophrenia.
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