Poem: MAD (Mentally Advanced Defiant)

Poem: MAD (Mentally Advanced Defiant)

I am MAD!

Quite acting as if you don’t know

For years now I have remained so

From that moment I became MAD_

I stopped seeing humans as sane

So I quit the game of blame

I no longer have time to burn time_

On news or stories of people who have no ears

I no longer frown even if light is ceased for years

After all I am MAD, so am purged of all fears

I prefer to soliloquize_

Than chat with men who don’t think twice

I prefer to sit alone_

Than to gather with ones who can’t atone

I dance to the chipping sound of evening birds

You hop to campaign songs of political bamboos

So you see, one of us is surely mad!

Even with my MAD mood am shocked_

I see you the sane arguing at newspaper stand_

About which politician stole and which didn’t

About which judge took bribe and which didn’t

Which government was better and which isn’t

I was hoping we had serious things to deal with_

Like which footballer is cute and which isn’t

Like which local government has finer girls

Which State cooks the best kind of soup?

Well am MAD and you’re not

Even in my MAD state I get emotional_

When I hear you shout even more than I do

No Electricity power for months, you shout!

So called virgin is now pregnant, you shout!

Holy Pastor caught using charms, you shout!

Revered Imam seen instigating war, you shout!

Elections rigged by the trustworthy, you shout!

Well I am MAD that’s why nothing shocks me

An advice for you who is not MAD_

Stop killing time on protests and agitations

Nothing changes if this Barabbas is on seat_

Or the other is hung on the cross

Stop wasting words advising a deaf

Why lavish useful curses on the devil’s chef?

Be still let them call your quietness insanity

Prove to them you’re a Mentally Advanced Defiant

It saves you pain when you’re just MAD!

By Kendrick Aziz Christian

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