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# Insanity: A Sonnet
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/insanity-a-sonnet/
- Published: 2017-09-12T16:55:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:11.000Z
- Description: I’m insane, or at least not well, my brain A flooded grave, the coffin cracked by roots From a forest overgrown…she has slain The dead once again, and from me no fruits
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

I’m insane, or at least not well, my brain  
a flooded grave, the coffin cracked by roots  
from a forest overgrown…she has slain  
the dead once again, and from me no fruits  
shall flower again; alas, I'm now dust  
that once was flesh and bone, long since decayed,  
crushed, missing and lost in Earth’s silent crust—  
a flute gone stale or a lover betrayed  
by time. O, am I really out of time?  
May I not wash my face and clear my head  
and try again, again, again?—To climb  
from ruin and rubble to glory instead?  
I’m not well, true, and well may never be,  
but the sane cannot see what I have seen!