Lunatic
Insane asylums warehouse the deranged lunatic
who exhibit behaviors absurd, wild or foolish;
peculiar mental symptoms that are profoundly sick
and often manifesting conduct outright ghoulish.
Some have hallucinations, imagined perceptions:
seeing sights that are absent, hearing voices not there
tasting and smelling poisons, feeling false impressions;
delusional thought process completely unaware.
Some sit for hours speaking incoherent babble:
unintelligible sounds meaninglessly uttered
and noisy repetition with internal squabble;
an excessive excitement in which thinking's scattered.
Insane asylums ensnare just a few lunatics,
the rest are here among us operating like kooks
creating disharmony from unreality shticks;
troubled lives on the fringes as undiscovered spooks.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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