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The Ones We Call Mad
<p><em>— a reflection on pain, identity, and the things people hide.</em></p><p><br/></p><p>Many broken people roam the Earth,</p><p>Yet somehow.......</p><p>The world still expects them to walk as though nothing ever shattered</p><p>Many mad people roam the streets,</p><p>yet the world only calls them mad when their pain becomes inconvenient</p><p>What if they aren't actually mad, just tired?</p><p>Maybe they aren't even mad at all.....just exhausted from surviving things they were never given the words to explain</p><p>Running away from the things they're expected to understand</p><p>Maybe they're not running from the world—maybe they're running from the parts of themselves the world taught them to fear</p><p>The part of themselves they've hidden for so long,</p><p>the part of themselves they lost just trying to please the world</p><p>Maybe the tragedy isn't that they've lost themselves, but that they've forgotten what they looked like before they learned to hide</p><p>And now they wander through life, searching for a version of themselves they don't even remember losing</p><p>And perhaps that's the cruelest part—</p><p>they don't need someone to tell them how to find their way back</p><p>They need someone to remind them that they were never meant to be lost in the first place</p><p>But instead we call them mad......</p><p>Because it is easier to call someone mad than to ask what happened to them</p><p>And we don't stop to think that maybe</p><p>they're not lost at all, maybe they're just trying to find a way back to themselves in a world that keeps giving them reasons to disappear</p><p>Maybe the real madness was never in them, but in a world that kept asking them to become someone else just to be accepted</p><p>Broken people roam the Earth</p><p>And maybe,</p><p>the world was never meant to be a place where the broken had to pretend they were whole</p><p>And maybe the ones we call broken are simply the ones who could no longer carry the weight of pretending they weren't.</p>
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