2021.09.14.
Who Is 'Mad'?
Who is 'mad'?Who is 'sane'?
Who is the perfect creature?
Don't use intermediaries -- [I swear] by your glory, I'm intoxicated
And I'm not in the mood [to talk to] anyone
I'm not blaspheming -- I am [simply] asking
I have a truck load of impossibility
I'm just beginning to understand what I'm doing here
I'm rotating and making [things] rotate, I'm a planet
I just realized that I am your word of reason [in creation]
[that] I am the pure gold of your [creation]
I just realized that I have a heart, I closed it
I saw a path untaken, and took1it
The unbudded sprout, I made it grow
The virus that was in oblivion, I am it
The answer to my being alive was not death -- would you really say it was?
My death was not [like] the death2 of a leaf -- would you say, for God's sake, it was?
All those tales and enchantments -- just leave it [behind]3?
This pain-stricken heart [of mine] -- just leave it [behind]?
The fear of losing the passage in Maroon River -- just leave it [behind]?
Watching birds over the Karoon River -- just leave it [behind]?
The streets, the whistling, the pitter-patter of the rain -- just leave it [behind]?
Who is 'mad'?
Who is 'sane'?
Who is the perfect creature?
You told me, 'Come, life is beautiful', I ran [toward it]
You sent me eyes to see