I was of a mind like a steel trap
Headily unsteady and ready to snap
But I lost it on the way to be
The way I am now in my insanity
Was what I would look in the mirror and see
Turning away then to look within
To be without was what it took to begin
Albeit absentmindedly through
A crack in society down all the way
To find myself reminded of me
Being otherwise seeing others were too
Learning the hard way like I had to
With the others in the solidarity
Spoken within the brokenness of
Each other to find another kind of love
Reflected in our humanity
Though this was disrespected in other eyes
Because of our being otherwise
Seeing us back to being human down there
Through the crack I saw us everywhere
More clearly than in the mirror of a mind
Like a steel trap that snapped shut behind
The glass that had always been cracked anyway
Of what had passed for reality
I had to go mad and break through to come true
There was a nun who would always pray
If you asked her to as something she could do
Where I went when I was sent away
So I asked her to and she did every day
And Rita the ballet dancer who
Said I was fit too and read my poetry
In that lockdown psych ward then I knew
When I lost my mind I found my humankind
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Jane
Ron