The Stages of Madness

"The Stages of Madness" Blue bleeds into each day cloudy I wait for some sign from You a ghost waving who could blame me an Ocean inside I am Cumulonimbus bursting the clouds gather the tears in their reigning signs are forever morphing, rearranging the meaningful somersaulting backwards, exchanging messages, forever changing, and changing, yet clearly understood soul swimming lux vitae in the never never ending stages of madness (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) “Let There Be …” / Max Cooper https://youtu.be/TVviQFKLMoU “There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me.'” (Virginia Woolf, "The Waves") Out on the wastes of the Never Never - That's where the dead men lie! There where the heat-waves dance forever - That's where the dead men lie! (Barcroft Boakes, "Where the Deadmen Lie") "“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.” Richard Bach ‘Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah’. never never/the Never-Never The unpopulated desert country of the interior of Australia; the remote outback. "Mid 19th century so named from the notion that one might never return from such remote country."