Musing over Sanity

“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled."-Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

I have wondered too, whether sanity is just a play...Not that we are all insane, but perhaps what we call sanity is merely the facade we put up to function in society with rules of conduct and decorum. Inside, so many of us are conflicted and confused, yet rarely show it.

Its slipping,
The mask I call sanity.
Every day it falls
I’m living in my own reality
I’ve lost it
No longer bound by propriety
It’s gone now
Farewell to all I knew of me