"Losing Sanity" is a poem I wrote after the U.S Marshall’s fugitive task force surrounded the place next door. It is about hiding away in the house with the blinds closed. The silence drives her stark mad without the sound of her furry friends to keep her company. She walks around with the trigger cocked waiting to take her sanity back.

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It’s a lonely road

inside this cold house of paradise

with the blinds closed like Fort Knox

hiding away from the hoodlums

lingering outside the windows.

No pitter patter of furry paws

scurrying across the floor,

no sunshine dancing across the walls,

no voices to stop the silence

from creaking in her soul.

It haunts her like shards of glass,

creating thoughts of a madwoman

with a weary spirit

planning her revenge.

Walking with a loaded magazine, the trigger cocked,

stark naked in her secluded mansion

waiting for that moment

when she can take her sanity back.

By Brenda Arledge

From: United States

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