What is the reference value
for madness?
For pregnancy, it is the hgc level
above 25 mlu/ml,
All I know my madness is pregnant with possibilities,
it can come to fruition,
anyday,
surpassing all the values
you have made
over days,
if not years;
it may be a laughter so pitying,
a shock so abrupt
a wave so sweeping,
no, I will just let myself go,
through all your doors,
tie me down,
cut me half,
slash me pieces,
pepper my flesh
with projectiles and bullets,
I will not stop,
my silence no more the martyred afterglow of twilight,
the sky will weep thunder,
air will blow at full blast,
earth will sunder,
madness so pure and unmixed
will devour
every pillar
every turret
of sanity.
a new reference value will be made,
sanity will be madness,
madness sanity.
Yasif Ahmad Faysal teaches at the University of Barishal.