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‘Madness kills Insanity’ Melancholy daggers had struck him down again Compressed a fragile state of festering fragments Left behind on slow incisions ready for the kill A crazy old man on death row of split darkness Stripped to the core on peripheries of bedlam Sadness wrapped in a straight-jacket of inactivity A shackled mind waiting for post mortem revelations One more confrontation with ultimate oblivion Void and temptation a distant memory of the future On the stretcher of trivial agony he had forgotten How Phoenix had risen from sack cloth and soot Had blown ashes to the wind of change and beauty They had to pin him onto bedsores and purulence Injected psychotropic poison for his mind to heal Convulsed him and surprisingly the catatonia lifted He woke up in a trance of muddled inspiration Wrote convoluted messages to Self and freedom Reflected on what caused his pain and dire thoughts Wiped off the bloody blade and penned a short obituary Opted for a different course and retreat from pandemonium Bid farewell to lunacy and retrieved light and reason His curse resembled the double-edged sword of passion Swinging from a short-lived pivot on the hook of treason And yet he would not want to miss his spell-bound destiny Depression gave him insight and bleeding resurrection Ignited him once more and made him realise that of dose Of enforced insanity was necessary to cure the madness 17th July 2019 Writing Challenge 2, July 2019- Melancholy- Poetry Contest Sponsor Dear Heart
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