The Madness of Ophelia

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Madness befalls those grasping grief,

Cries of injustice and songs of mourning, of disbelief.

Beautiful Ophelia, and brother Laertes.

Loss of love and broken minds.

Death shatters the conscience.

Cracking sheets of ice under an elephants soles.


Insanity of humanity,

A disease within the mind.

Sickness burning a fever beneath the skin.

Frantic, a lunatic howling to the moon.

Fictions of health explained away as the supernatural.

Demons scarring your soul,

Torturing with water and shocks.

Blackening the brightest of hearts,

Until they are charred and burnt.

Proclaiming their torture the touch of healing to cure the mind.

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