THE OTHER SIDE OF SANITY- (IV) <br /> (Conclusion) <br />I have often wondered why, people look upon the <br />insane, <br />As if they are from another world, a creature of <br />much disdain; <br />Deserving only our abusive words, in this world <br />of countless insane! <br />Yet our History is replete, with such maddening <br />afflictions of suffering and pain, , <br />Igniting movements of various kinds, where religious <br />fanaticism had prevailed! <br />Like the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisitions, witch- <br />craft and human sacrifice, - <br />Are all instances of insanity, of its own brand and <br />kind! <br />And don’t you forget that Megalomaniac, * <br />Who tried to exterminate all the Jews, - <br />A fit case for the mental asylum, <br />While we pause to pay sanity its dues! <br />And all our modern terrorists, those racialists, <br />and fanatics, - <br />Who feel they can rule this world; <br />Remain as mere pawns on the checkered board <br />of time, <br />Those insane lunatics of a deluded kind, - <br />Who will make our psychiatrists go out of <br />their mind! <br />- RAJ NANDY <br />- New Delhi <br />- 11 Oct 08 <br />(* Hitler, the greatest of all megalomaniacs!)<br /><br />RAJ NANDY<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-other-side-of-sanity-iv/
