The Mystery Of Schizophrenia
He was locked away in a padded room.
He just sat there in the gloom.
He did have outbursts in the past.
Now, he seems calm, at last.
The diagnosis is Schizophrenia, Undifferentiated.
Though a Psych diagnosis is highly overrated.
He is obviously in a world of his own.
Sometimes he will smile. Other times he will moan.
Mostly, he likes to be left alone.
Exactly what is going on in him is not known.
Sometimes he will eat, other times he must be fed.
He will usually use the floor as his bed.
Are there demons screaming in his head?
He is totally delusional, it is said.
They have tried Electro Convulsive Therapy.
The response is less than they want it to be.
Sometimes he talks, but it makes no sense.
Maybe it does where he went.
If you had the ability to read minds.
And you entered his, what would you find?
Would you want to come back out again?
Or, would you stay there within.
Would it be like entering the 7th level of hell?
Or, would it be an escape from this place we know well?
What has happened to him & why it does
is still a mystery that eludes us.
Some day we may open that door.
And the patient may say: “I don’t want to be here anymore.”
—————————————————————R. W. Johnson—–(2015)