Glimpse of Sanity

© Jaimey Perham 11/01/2010

When I ventured from the urban city into the dense quiet woods

I felt the heavy veil lift just where I stepped, stopped and stood

So I decided to forgive those in my life who I did & they did me harm

A heartwarming silence of tall trees, deafening like a first fire alarm

In some distant way I knew the hurt loved ones out there understood

If they were with my soul then, I would thank & hug them if I could

All this occurred in my once shattered broken now strong clear mind

My blood ran peacefully warm until the cave, a painful flashback find

Next to the rocky rippled stream near the small lake by the red barn

I stepped off the sandy trail & hopped over the fence onto the lawn

Feeling like that of royalty in some distant county in the past, a czar

Unfortunately that cancerous insanity returned when I turned on car

Wanted to leave my crippled body there and go to the first bar I saw

But instead I just drove down that road of bad memories really so far

Got home back to my base & washed my brain of that thick black tar

That gathered up in my vessels like decayed moss in a world of reality

Unlike my trip into that magic healing forest, a real glimpse of sanity