Here's Where You Can Lose Your Mind

Here's where you can
Be the savior
Be your Jesus
Be serene

Here's a bed
And here's a desk
And here's some paper
Write your feelings

See if you can sit quietly
See if you can stop the ghosts
See if you can stretch your grace
To every corner
Of this tiny place

Here's where you can
Here's where you can lose your mind

See if you can drop your guard
And drag yourself to the window
To the view of the park
And the forest
And the landscape
And the ferris wheel
And the paradise

Demonstrate your ability
To contain your sanity
So that when they ask you questions
You can smile and answer eloquently
About the advances you've made
In paving your own mind

See if you can find
An example
In your past memory
Of a good person
And a citizen
And a rational being

And when they leave
You can collapse again
And avalanche into bed
For another three days
Till you lose track of time

Here's where you can do it
Here's where you can lose your mind

You can go back into the ruined building
That you call your happy home
And put up the pictures
And put back the furniture
And dance around the kitchen
Fixing wall holes as you go
Patching them up with fabrications
Decorating all the brown spots
Where the past at last seeped through

And once you do
You can build it back again

But until then, my friend
Just lose it

You're here, aren't you?

And here's where you can lose your mind