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"Shakespeare"
How Macbeth rings in sync with my mind lies beyond my grasp,
a fictitious madman reeking of guilt at spilled blood,
whilst I lay in rest at night wondering if I am awash
with the blood of my mistakes,
my only wound a broken sanity,
oh how old and broken my soul is.
I cannot help but wonder how my thoughts ring true
through the pen of Shakespeare,
a backwards prediction of events now unfolding,
mad boy kills father, boy killed, cut.
Final scene.
Grim lovers, fates intertwined, destinies wrapped like vines
around the neck of a bottle on Juliet's upturned lips
a dance on the blade of a knife ends in misstep,
and the life of lost love crumbles.
Insanity does a dive into death,
self-harm a bridge leading to lives abridged,
but this is not the cliffhanger
I want blossoming from this throat,
I wish worlds of words, a conflagration of divine syllables
crashing through nerve cells mutilated cast into iron cells,
bars barring words, battered and broken beat brains back
to crazy like a chicken beheaded,
for they cannot escape, driven to madness by voices spoken
ever in a whisper, kept quiet by the passerby
who wonders if they are to call the cops
when I reply into silent air.
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I am simply intrigued and inspired by the struggle of those suffering from schizophrenia and other mental disorders, though it is not a personal experience.