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Myrddin Wyllt Journey Through

Long ago far from Annwn, roaming the castle of Bedlam
It began a house of bread to the tormented souls
but sanity’s answer to Melancholy and Raving
is for one to wade, through the sewer, of chaos and confusion
the wild spinning of rational therapy
Spinning on a throne suspended from the ceiling
A dizzying carnival of madness, to no avail
Open windows into disturbed minds but who’s
One swell master stroke no raking progress,
in the dungeons of the mind
Warmer was the solitary confinement, of the straight jacket
The icy baths, leeching, beatings, bloodletting, cups of fire
Blistering the mind, as a silent young one rooms with a manic
As the black knights of this realm
sell the spoils to their starvation
The political prisoners of their choosing,
even the dead are sold for gold
but an escape was made playing dead,
to the body snatchers surprise
Myrddin Wyllt’s scientific method is running into the woods
vanishing before their eyes, far from the aristocratic zoo
- Based on Bedlam, History’s Most Notorious Asylum and various legends

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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