Madness (The Other Side of Normal)

We are feral beasts
clawing at the dismal dark
to get at your lamplight
to feed from your torch of normal.

We are the devil's drumbeat
a legacy of god's abandonment
battering our way into placid dreams
declaring native war
against everything you must believe
to keep us invisible.

We are you, in acid nightmare
every honest emotion you ever had
played through an amphitheatre
the skin of mind ripped down
leaving only raw thoughts.

We are mankind's mirror
we're what you see inside yourself
when stripped of every certainty
when shivering alone in luminous pool
of quickly burning spirit.

We are the animal of survival
that whispers when to shut up
when to run like your cheetah brother
almost faster than death.