Bonkers

Do you wish to visit the edge of insanity
without injesting any illegal substances?
To a point far enough to almost fall in,
yet near enough to return?
I shall tell you how to get there.

Do not sleep for about 48 hours.
Allow yourself to finish that book.
Watch those movies you have been dying to see.
Injest copious amounts of caffeine and sugar,
in increasing increments as the hours go by.
Soon, you will find a thin haze wrap around you.
Like a very clear yet present layer of cling wrap.
You will find your filtering systems fail,
so beware of those who are around,
you may say things that were never meant
to leave the spaces of your mind.


You will feel an agonizing pull from your bed and pillows.
There will be a sweet, torturous battle in your gut;
to sleep or to experience what the day has to offer
will be the opposing forces.

Side effects may also include drowsiness,
moments of hyper cheer and pep (also known as the second wind),
hallucinations and headaches.


You will experience what it is like to swim in a thick soup.
Your mind will unlock strange and perhaps even vivid thoughts.
You may find yourself expelling strings of
unintelligible gibberish (also known as word-vomit).


How is this the edge of insanity, you may ask?
Do not sleep for about 48 hours and you will find out.
if you are too attached to your dreams
and cannot resist catching those Zzz's

You could always fall in love,


but THAT is a sweet insanity all on its own.


And another story entirely...