Insanity Poem by Riya Gangwar

Numb motions
Ignorant emotions
If you weren’t so pretentious
Poverty wouldn’t plague shadows of the shallow.
You did this.
Killed humanity with your superficial charm.
Blissful ego
Little child, solemn soul
How could this be so, be so,
So. I told you so.
Visions of human destruction
The walls are thin, so listen
Hollow hearts are inevitably so,
Said the man who created the curse of the hollow.
Sin, said so.
Pessimistic ego delivered the truth.
While vile truths torment the innocent.
Why does he choke the child?
Because his mother told him he wasn’t a man.
Why are the trees made of plastic? ..and the sky of tragic solitude?
Because the father told us that we are alone in our ego.
To be alone is to seek the heavens in unsound hope
And rip to shreds the only one left when the truth shows,
Humanity is too so.
Unsound hope.
May we meet death before the shallow waters take us whole.
And deliver us as a hopeless cause.
Is it a curse to say I told you so?
Offensive in its deliberating?
Arrogant in its certainty.
Egocentric denial.
Must the ego be nonexistent?
To separate two truths from a lie.