Standing On The Edge Of The Outer Recesses Of Reality Poem by Tommy Johnson

I took a vacation from myself
And my standard personality
My vices and virtues left behind
I became someone new

Shed my skin
Evacuated my shell
Molted my feathers
And wandered off to the abyss

What I once called the truth
What I once named false
Both now thrown in the air
Now I see which falls into my lap

Sharing sexual pleasures with men and women alike
In an illustrious lusty affair

Smoking herb, dropping out and drinking the forbidden wine

With no second thought
With no regret or remorse

No rules
No laws
No limits

Rebelling against myself
And whatever is given to me
But why?
How come?

To test limits
To break through
To a place of nothing
No gods
No kings
No me

To test myself
My boundaries
To abandon my comfort zone
And take a trip

I’ve been to the land
Of discipline
Of self control
Of obedience
And conformity

Faded out to the valley of shadows
Nowheresville
Population me

I’ll return
To my roots
Soon enough

With the knowledge
Of how far I’ll go
How deep I care to let myself go
How heavy a load I can carry

Loosening my grip of reality
Only to adjust it
To a level of pressure that suites me best

Make changes in myself
To be the man I want to be

Rearrange my life
And see what I really believe

So until I come home peace be with you
If I’m not back in ten minutes
Just wait a little bit longer