Both mind and body

bent and broken,

put together wrong.

Both mind and body

crazy and psychotic,

told by others this is wrong.

If this is so,

why do I see you as you really are?

If this is so,

why am I not two-faced like you are?

If this is so,

why I am happy inside and out,

while you are broken and crying inside with a false face plastered on?

Does my bent and broken

mind and body

actually make me saner than you?

Does my crazy and psychotic

mind and body

allow me to be true to myself, to let me be me

while you, who is deemed normal, are held captive by the views of others?

Others,

not me,

have bent and broken

minds and bodies.

Others, not me,

have crazed, psychotic

minds and bodies.

I lie not to hurt others,

but to protect them.

You like to hurt others

and to protect yourself.

My view of the world

makes me see reality,

your view of reality comes from the world

you created for yourself.

Because I am not ‘normal’,

because I am not like others surrounding me,

I am free,

free to be who I want to be,

free of worry about what others think.

Because you work so hard to be ‘normal,

because you strive to be like those surrounding you,

you miss out on your life,

on who you could be.

You are chained into a carbon copy of someone else

with no hope for escape.

So,

who is really sane here?

Who is really free?

Me… with a ‘bent and broken’

mind and body?

Or you…with your twisted,

unrealistic view of normalcy?