Shadows that speak

Posted on by Reena Saxena 
 voices
 tell me what to do
 voices 
 I don’t like
 voices
 try to break my silence
 provoke me
 into taking a stand
  
 shadows 
 lurk in the background
 shadows
 overpower my presence
 shadows
 suppress my light
 shadows 
 not mine – but 
 the source of voices
  
 Insanity?



Quadrille #85 – Raising our Poetic Voices
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27 thoughts on “Shadows that speak”

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  3. Insanity? Maybe… or perhaps it is just the way things work. We learned how to speak by the repetition of voices we can no longer remember. We have learned so many norms and behaviors from the structure around and within us that is, nevertheless, not truly ourself… maybe the whole world is insane, and it is only a matter of the most prominent norms gets the stamp of sanity. You have left your mark on me today.

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      1. The GAF – global assessment of function, and levels of internal dysphoria may be measures that can differentiate beyond the parameters of social norms,but GAF is itself steeped in social normative, but there are so many states of being labeled as insane that really are merely different. The voices are always there.

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