I got named as a psychiatric state All because I couldn’t wait To see what life held behind the curtain And I’d be lying if I said I was hurting Cause there is beauty in the extreme And this life might be someone else’s dream And saying as such earned me a degree I’m certified as what you see But do their words have any meaning Or is it all just a great seeming As they note their pads full of ink But I don’t believe what they think As I absorb the constellations And disregard their iterations And I know how I ended up here I just don’t think I’ll tell you, dear As you compassionate the signs And I laugh because the designs Won’t be held by a human hand If you weren’t listening I said I was grand And, sure, some thoughts came into my head But I’m the same person that walks to dread I’m the same one who wakes in the morning And just because the sky’s a storming Doesn’t mean there’s no expanse beyond I reach what you teach like a bleach blonde