The Other Side
Tomorrow is open class in front of parents and administration. I wonder what keeps me sane. I wonder why others have lost sanity. What makes matters worse is I just found out the Seoul City Minister of Education has also planned a visit to our school. There is just a thin line that keeps us from losing our minds.
Original Poem @mineopoly
The Other Side
Steady the brain
To maintain
Human
Sanity
Fine
Line is drawn
Between what is
Habitual consumption of
Compliance to peremptory pressures
Maintained rituals of senseless repetition
Uniformed thoughts and behaviors
Numbing the mind to a state of café corretto
And what is considered normal.
Even he can be thrown off balance.
Behind the leather wheel
Three letter acronym
Excuse for a car.
The deadly
Leap.
Solto
Mortale
At Cirque Napoleon
The quadrouple summersault
Is welcomed by open hands on the other side
In thanksgiving to my partner
Who caught me
And brought me
To the other
Side.
You look like Jack Nicholson
And you wonder
Why was I not
the
one to fly
Over the
Coockoo's
Nest?
If you read this poem you can see why I am thankful for my wife who puts up with me. This is my 17th poem in the Steemitschool poetry competition @d-pend.(Steemitschool Discord)
Verse of the Day/ Job 12:10
"In his hand is the life of every creature."
Mineopoly Quote:
Give thanks for every breath.
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QTTA: (QUESTION TO THINK ABOUT)
What keeps you from crossing over that fine line from sanity and insanity?
I love you all.
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I felt a kind of playful intention in this poem @mineopoly. Even the reference you make to your wife's endurance is jocular, but at the same time it seems to contain creative pressure. Good job. Do not faint, keep going.
Thank you for your honest comment @zeleiracordero. In college I used to work in a nursing home with paralytic patients. Half were consciously participating in life although they could not move a limb or were missing limbs. The other half had no sign of consciousness. Today I walk around with my arms and two legs but am paralyzed by things I cannot even control. It is the intense struggle I felt yesterday when I wrote this. Now my open class is finished. And I don't care much about meeting the minister of education. He will come and go but the people close to me like my wife and kids and the people I work with everyday are really the ones who need me. Maybe you can tell I want to quit writing poetry and doubt why I ever entered this contest in the first place. I have a lot on my mind but the ton of stuff in my brain flows to only a two words.
Thank you
From,
@mineopoly
His feel vulnerable, @mineopoly. Strength! You are a fighter. What you tell me reveals a large, sensitive and committed human being. Do not faint Every day the sun brings new lights, trusts that something good and straight can always come out of crooked things, provided that we have a willing heart to look for the positive within the negative. Patience!
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