What Keeps Me Sane

I’m going mad

My brain can’t relax

Nothing kills faster

Than a mind without tracks

 

What keeps these tracks so straight

I ponder

What does my life contain

That keeps me sane

I wonder

 

Music

Lyrics

The tone of a voice

 

These are the components

Of a life with choice

We express our feelings

Our deepest thought

 

Without music my inner soul would rot

I can’t fathom an island

Without a sound

Without a note

Someone around here

Find me a boat

 

With a stereo system

Something with meaning

I want someone to tell me

That they know what I’m feeling

 

I need to feel a presence

A human mind

Who has fears and dreams

While keeping a rhyme

 

Going and going

The music has beat

That flows to the rhythm

Of my heart underneath

 

But if all of that thought

That was expressed through sound

Were to be lost to the sea

Nowhere to be found

 

As would my mind

Be lost in the waves

I could not survive  

Not even two days

 

 

 

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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