Spirituality Of Psychosis From 2 Year Self-Isolation



We want the power of the divine and don’t consider the cost,
No fun and games - i played rocks paper scissors in the mirror... and lost.
Rock beats scissors, that adds up. I’m just glad it’s you
Then you look up at the mirror and see that there’s no one staring back at you
Damn.

There’s a knock at the front door, the phone starts ringing, the back door slides open — your arm starts stinging

The needle moves, the floor shakes, you’re surrounded by mist,
The needle breaks, The floor falls, your bound by the wrists
You enter a zone far far from home ... where time and sound doesn't exist

You taste colors and hear dreams, fear isn’t what fear seems
Cry from happiness or misery, tears aren’t what tears seem

Then dark clouds form, wraiths and phantoms start circling you,
They're talking bout hurting you
You curse names and wish pain to all who deserted you

You get hit from a distance, collapse in an instance
Fall cushioned by an entity with more presence than a rich kids Christmas...mmmm

A stone so heavy he can’t lift it is lifted
A gray Rubix cube is solved any way that you twist it

Colorless world is what you’re seeing
Roamed by monsters, ghouls, 4th 5th 7th dimensional beings

That breed in water worlds,
seeing creatures..sea creatures. Its as off as off gets,
I'm Sleeping with piranhas, I’m napping with the Loch Ness (he’s got a long neck )

Sirens sing, the sirens cry, deadly melodies talk you into lairs,
And it’s there, that you come back to your senses and realize water isn’t air

The harder you fight, the tougher it is to breath,
If you live you vow to never return to a world underneath the sea,

If you’re wondering who you is..you is me,
a warning that your mind is way more powerful than it seems,

When you start to confuse reality with your dreams
But only til it happens will understand what it means

About this poem

One day during self-isolation, Mr.SmartCity played "Rock Paper Scissors" in the mirror. He drew a rock ….while his own reflection in the mirror showed him holding scissors. That set off a panic that kickstarted a series of ethereal events that are almost impossible to describe. This poem does its best to recreate the visuals and auditory hallucinations —or spiritual visions — that ensued. A vivid recount of an episode of psychosis and hallucination induced from a 2 year self-isolation period where Mr. SmartCity locked himself in a room and disconnected from all social media, TV, Movies, and leisurely social interaction. During this time, it also kick started an on-going 6-years of sobriety; the stress of withdrawals and the loss of several loved ones combined with lack of sleep created the (im)perfect chaos. 

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Written on April 04, 2022

Submitted by housestrategy on April 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAAX B CDC EF AAA XF XX BX XXX DX XG GE EX
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,832
Words 341
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 5, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2

House SmartCity

Mr.SmartCity grew up on the notorious E.Hastings St. in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Surrounded by lost souls addicted to drugs, prostitution, and crime, combined with the trademark gloomy atmosphere of the Pacific NorthWest, Mr.SmartCity's could only find sunshine through expression of art, music, writing, acting, and reading. Heavily influenced by Seattle's 90's grunge-metal scene and a fascination with clever wordplay and technical rhyme structure found in modern written acapella battle rap, Mr.SmartCity adapts these elements into his poetry to create a distinctive way of storytelling and recounting real-life experiences. After a string of devastating losses of loved ones, bouts of homelessness, a 2 year self-isolation period, dedication to an on-going 6 year sobriety, and finding major successes in several business projects, you can find a similar theme of polarization in Mr.SmartCity's poems, which he describes his genre as "Doom-To-Bloom". Throw in a splash of psychedelic and you have an idea of what to expect from Mr.SmartCity. more…

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