Madness Masked As Normality (Family Ties) Poem by Not Long Left

Madness masked as normality sat with us
for twenty long years, beside the empty

dining room chair, upon the unruffled pillow.
Silently it stayed aggressively is displayed its

purpose, knocking us down then holding out
its hidden hands. When finnally the walls

were stripped, trophies taken and boxed,
pictures lingered before placed into darkness.

Leaving behind a life of love, locking up a life
of fragile mood, we sailed down seperate rivers.

It followed us with no footprints madness masked
us normality it never leaves when the clock strikes five.