Madness

It’s getting crazier out there

Everyone walks around as if in a daze

Constantly distracted

Missing the present

Focused solely on the future

Speaking much but saying little

Responding without listening

Laughing when no jokes are told

Seeking without ever finding

Acting content yet feeling incomplete

Smiling to cover up their pain

Slow to hear

Swift to speak

Swift to wrath

Vessels for ideas without being aware of it

Wishing to stay asleep and resisting those who try to wake them

Humans are weird

While animals make perfect sense

Especially dogs

They keep it simple

They get it

While even humans who know it tend to forget it

I wish Sawyer were still alive so we could hang out together

And avoid the humans

Who bring all the craziness into my life

Changing those humans has always failed

I’ve mostly given up trying

Plan C is to recover my lost peace

And secure it so deeply within myself

That nobody can ever again take it from me

A mission to last me the rest of my life

Until, one way or another, it is accomplished