Atascadero....
Walking through the corridores at Atascaderos State Hospital
Here to speak to a certain confined patient....
Within the walls of the criminally insanes, incarcerated
Thinking to myself a moment ago as I checked in my arms
How thin are the lines that I have seen throughout time!?
Between sanity and sanes, fragile crossings....
To look upon the former would seldom reveal, the true psychosis deep inside?!
These tainted minds, lying within their dormancies and waiting to be born....
Often only within hindsights and retrospects can many find
What was but the dawning of a brewing and soon to be arriving, storm!
The sweetest man; the loveliest lady; most of the time?
Borderlines telltale signs, often overlooked and missed by most
Until one day the barrier breaks, and the blood curdlings tide comes rushing through
Insanities birth; as it freefalls to the earth....
From the foreshadowed incubator of, darkness' mold!
Now staring into their hollowed eyes, and somberly reflecting upon
The innocent and precious lives, of which they so viciously stole
Wanting to know anything and everything, which may prevent someday
Such a tragedy from perhaps, ever happening once again?
But I have lived long enough and seen more than my desired share
Of reality, within these distorted views; among a world wherein they thrive
Embracing them bred; as if they were their own child....
And the truth is, so ironically sadly, these, they are!
Welcome to the times of the shadowed sublimes, cocoons, waiting to burst
Their offsprings, of the mangled and manged
Hideously grinning as they make their way
To the misfortunates future graves
Afore the countless loved ones, shattering hearts!
Smiling at myself as I now ask them---Who? Why? What? Where?
Thinking of an old adage...."A book by its cover?"
Borderline bound, in blood red lace; retrospected, no more!
The telltale signs, of the criminally insane
How? When? He said? She said? To a world, they wed....
....Welcome, to the final floor!?
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Atascadero
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