When Madness Rides On Moonlight

Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks. The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links. Comets trail snowfields of light pass agonized cypresses, schizophrenic concussion. On and on, the wind twirls the trees and does not complain, nor, does the cosmos cringe awaiting reciprocation. Lightening bugs mimic the starlight, atoms sneer. Those who spout love and friendship abandon him sneering. Their images dance beneath his half closed lids, when he blinks. Though denied visual compass, his soul does not reciprocate. Through pain, physical and mental, palpable pain, he still links, with the life which has both absorbed and excluded him not complaining. Night passes without his mistress, Sien. His mind writhes, eternal concussion. His torn visage trembles with the brass sounds the storm's ranting concussions. The butcher, the baker the candlestick maker, derides and sneers. How unmerciful is this cycle, this God to whom he does not complain? And, if indeed, lack of mercy is just, may he not know “Why?” Time blinks. Just the act of thinking causes pain. Only painting connects him to the link. He must accept both the pain and the art as gifts, choosing not to reciprocate. Voices always the voices, the paint, the moon, the voices, reciprocate. He chases the mice. The cheese, pewter plate and all, falls with concussion. He rubs the backs of gnarled hands across his lids, maintaining the link. “How? Why?" But, the mice eating his cheese grimace and sneer. Inside the cottage sunflowers shimmer and wiggle in vases, as he blinks. Stumbling, he falls in an attempt to sit, the insubstantial chair does not complain. He had thought God clear, clear as sunlight, yet the damn paint Lord! complained. He was Not God, and try as he would, the light escaped. He MUST reciprocate. After all who was he, but a mere man, ashes to dust, life blinks. “Ah death…le grand mal…no minor concussion,” He must escape this mortal coil, join the celestial spin without their sneers. Sick, he was sick, yes, sick to death of not being understood, no link.