Split Personality

Normally I am sober Love to socialize Never lose composure Need no disguise I am an IT engineer I am a good husband Clara my wife dear Earns several thousand We are a happy family Except the deadly alter As they say the insanity Needs a strong halter Whenever you humiliate me The rebel will come up Will bring out invariably The beast in my soul-hub And when the beast is out To do something horrible Irrational bloods shout I am criminally terrible But the normal I has no memory Of the monster in me Nor the alter is aware Of the others who accompany This dissociation is disastrous Psychiatry has no remedy Psychotherapy is advantageous For the disturbed chemistry The broken home of my childhood Haunts me in my dream Both the identities in the darkness Are in full-throated scream Doctors give me medicines For anxiety and depression Sending me in reticence To tranquilize the elephant I don’t know how long I will stay With this miserable destiny I am afraid one clouded day I'll kill both of me ___________________________ May 22, 2016 For: Split Personalities – Poetry Contest Sponsor: Brian Davey