Two directions
Our schizophrenic society offers two directions,
and we generally take them both
in opposite directions
driven both ways by the schizophrenic society
in a desperate effort to conform to it.
This society, by stress and overwork
is going to extremes to drive us nuts,
forcing us into the direction of introversion
by over-focussing and concentration
ending up in burnt-out cases,
paralysis, cancers and brain tumours,
so we find ourselves completely apathetic
as a wreck abandoned in a ward.
This is of course insane,
and thus we turn into the opposite direction
away from stress and the society,
going anti-social, freaking out and dropping out,
abandoning ourselves to any kind of love
just to get out, escape ourselves
and all that is unbearable in humdrum dreariness,
routine, responsibility and overwork for nothing,
anything to just get out of ourselves;
and the miraculous result is this,
that the more we lose in this uneconomic process,
the saner the results, the better off we are,
the more we gain in health and clarity of mind,
and the ultimate reward of this is freedom.
And then we don't have any need
to any more complain of this society
which as a safety catch
enforces us to drop out and abandon it.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-01-14 at 10:33
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