‘We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; ‘ —W.B. Yeats ‘
Familial Lunacy
their memories are like ashes
batty-brained ancestors, insane,
with progeny, who bear the stain
unwittingly, their singed remains
poison surging through red hot veins
manic peaks plunging in crashes
they can’t hide their damaged breeding
twisted helixes flexed in rage
bleeding ink blots on each page
pills and therapy can’t assuage
what is passed down from age to age
maddening, this inner seething
it is a wretched legacy
leering from mirrored reflections
souls trapped in predisposition
despite every well-intentioned
surrender to intervention
crazy is, as it does…crazy
~kat
Today’s quote is from ‘Easter, 1916’ for Jane Dougherty’s ‘A Month With Yeats’ – Day Twenty-Four. The painting above is entitled ‘All Is Vanity” by C. Allan Gilbert. (1892)
like mercury colliding... 
November 24th, 2017 at 3:42 pm
Do you have anyone in particular in mind?
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November 24th, 2017 at 3:52 pm
Besides myself? Haha…no.
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November 24th, 2017 at 3:54 pm
I wondered if you didn’t have the First Family in mind—and I don’t mean Jesus and his mum and dad.
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November 24th, 2017 at 3:56 pm
Though Adam and Eve were a wee bit touched and their sons…proves my point. I do see your reference to the first family. Quite the study in madness! 😉
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November 24th, 2017 at 4:28 pm
Adam and Eve’s lot had the excuse of inbreeding. What’s the other one’s?
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November 24th, 2017 at 4:32 pm
I suspect inbreeding may still be at play! 😉😀
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November 24th, 2017 at 3:53 pm
Marvelous Maddness indeed. 😎😎😎🥀🥀🥀
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November 24th, 2017 at 4:11 pm
We’re all a bit mad. 😉
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November 24th, 2017 at 4:18 pm
interesting take on madness
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November 24th, 2017 at 4:34 pm
It’s all relative! 😉
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