Offroad thoughts

You'd think sanity to be
part of the package,
and that's that.

Maybe for the very few,
blessed with peace,
or cursed with boredom,
this rings true.

But insanity need not come from
lack of reason.
It may look different,
but the instability caused by
inner chaos
might well be of the same strain.

In pure over-thought,
in those neurons
that thought themselves
greater than the mind,
in the illusion of
dreams come true
into nightmares,
and the impossibility
to throw down anchor,
to stop moving,
to never slow down.

It's not insanity,
mind you.
It's the road that may lead you to
that nice white room,
stuck in a wonderful,
unending caress.

Funny how such hospitality
aims at the streets, as if
damage has not yet sunk in.

And more laughable still
is when we leave these roads,
we find what we ought to be.

Sometimes, the first steps
are the hardest to lift.

And sometimes, in finding freedom,
we run.