Happily Insane

Had I, O Lord, been born a simpleton I would be unmindful of the worldly woes. Let the apocalyptic disaster then come and set the world on fire I would just sit aside unconcerned had I been born an ignorant bum. Keeping my wits about me is driving me down a forbidding path to insanity. All that I have heard in life, whatever I have yet seen had stayed within me like a festering sore on my soul. Lord, had I been born a fool, ignorant of twisted hearts and shallow minds, wouldn't I live a happier life? (“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination”–Mark Twain)