Safe Place

Scrittura Saturday Prompt : Exaggeration

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Watching inmates in this mad house play
gives me hope
tearing robes, scraping skin, glassy eyes
waiting for Godot
fools paradise
this mad house gives me hope;
hidden memories now on display for all to see
clapping hard, delirium ensues
a box filled with someone’s tribulations spills
pin-drop silence
the matted hair woman erupts in a shimmy
man with distant look whimpers
the urge to join in becomes insuppressible
I mumble on repeat
it is, it is, my new address it is
among lunatics and the unhinged
my home, my safe place
for normal life is a travesty
not for me, not for me
I see this mad house and beam with familiarity

@Aparna Das Sadhukhan

Thank you for reading :)
In response to J.D. Harms’s Saturday prompt: Exaggeration
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