Caged Freedom

7. Sanity

Is it the capacity to think?
Is it the strictness of thought?
What do you think it be?
That which they say is your clear head,
The concept that declares your mind sound
That which you know is your peace.
Yes! Sanity is what I speak.

No matter the strength at mind,
Something always has the means
to throw you off your game.
No matter how stable you believe you can,
There is ever the thing to trigger that slide.
Sanity is ever so fragile
even for a mastermind.

Sanity so precious to thine,
Sanity ever luscious when fine,
Sanity so needed in mind,
I know its yours and so I need mine.

I find it nice when someone smiles,
This just means that he is mentally okay,
That nothing threw him off balance
That his mind is not clouded.
In simple terms, he is happy and content
This is what sanity awards to her hosts.

What is no friend to sanity is no friend to you
Anger, sorrows, distress, frustrations
Anxiety, stress, heartbreaks, depressions,
The small aspects that steal
your chance to be happy,
that steal away your sanity.

Be selfish sometimes,
You are only human after all
There is no way on this earth,
No, even in heaven as such-
That you'll please every soul
Make every right and do no wrong.
You are human and no deity
You are not perfect, you're not God.

Its not selfishness if its for your sanity
Its also not arrogance if its for your sanity
Its not ego if its for that peace of mind:
At the end of it all, its you alone where you stand.

Sanity very hard to come-by,
Sanity very adamant in this life-mine
Sanity, the choice in this mind.
Sanity the key to a happy life
Sanity the way to my peaceful shrine.