Sanctuary

Meaningless words
and empty feelings
-- Forbidden emotions.


Four-sided walls
and padded cushions
-- Nightmarish solutions.

Anemic bloodsuckers
and anorexic nutcrackers
-- Purveyors of hallucinations.

Muffled silence,
demented perception
in the world
of straightjacket
seclusion.

Baseless views
Fearless lies
Invalid reasons
Triumphed in the minds
of the absurd.

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Poetic Voices/ May 2003