Madness.

There's a tremor named madness,
Shaking the world around us.
He know's your name.
He know's where you've been.
And where you're going.
He know's your secrets
And your innermost thoughts.


He lives inside all of us.
And only those who embrace it,
Truly understand me,
and the others who have done so as well.
The madness that dares us to be strange,
Tells us to be different,
To look at the world in a different perception.
It makes us always question,
Be inquisitive,
Be amazing.
Be human.


Which is what so many of us are not.
They've become the drones society wants us to be.
They follow orders,
They don't think.
At least not in a greater sense.
They all like the same things,
And they don't feel.
Not the way we do.
They avoid pain, love and anger.
When all it really is,
is a release.
A release from the chains who tie us down to the ground.
The chains we're all secretly afraid of breaking.
Because we know that beyond those chains.
Is the unknown, and unfamiliar.
The wicked, the weird,
and infinitely,
Our true souls.


They might lie deep in another dimension.
They might live far, far away in a distant desert.
Or in the Black Forests of Germany.
They might live in your very homes,
Maybe even in your hearts.
But you'll never find them if you don't break away.


When I was young, I was told by my school counselor that I was terribly mad.
Never have I been complimented more greatly.
I've always been considered 'weird' by my peers.
This might have actually scared a couple away.
but that didn't bother me.
I was but a child.
I was free to be me.
And then I grew,
And social pressures started hitting me more greatly.
And I was lost.
I became a conformist.
The spark of insanity I had as a kid,
was doused.
By the sudden hit of puberty and self-consciousness.
It was the saddest time of my life,
I too learned to hide my emotions,
To not feel anything.
I was just another fish in the sea.


I then realized how ridiculous that was,
and gave up.
I became me again.
Let my madness,
My soul,
overwhelm me.
And it was the greatest decision I ever made.