Schizoid Polypath
Imagine paranoid schizophrenia evolving
as Right-hemispheric totalitarian bipolarity
living in a rabid stress-filled ecosystem
of dismaying relationships
with human nature over-populating systems;
family and those other terrorist aliens.
Now imagine paranoid behavior's function
finds an entirely natural schizopathic response
to an abusive
marginalizing
institutionalizing cultural reaction against madness
wildness
discontinuous domestication of ego-identity one primal-self.
We used to call less paranoid, more manic, bipolarity
shamans and prophets,
witches and androgenous medicine men,
wizards and saintly dry sages,
wise old crones,
messiahs and wise womb/men,
mystics and hermaphroditic hermits
pot heads and opium addicts.
Now we call such mediums
schizophrenic and really nothing more empathic,
other than paranoid, of course.
We fail to remember that paranoia
is empathic worthy of rational ecopolitical trust
if "they" really have decided you are merely insane,
without any cultural value or merit.
For then our promise remains clouded in unknowing.
For hyper-curious bipolarity,
a constantly stressing threat
of perpetual solitary confinement,
speaking in silent echoing silos of non-communication,
ominously silent noise,
followed by voices screaming prophecies of doom
reciting slender mythic-history memories of lost enculturing potential.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
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