dear maynard

is it possible do you think
for environmental conditions to be right
to push you back into sanity?
if events can make you crazy,
can they also undue the damage?
even temporarily?

Maybe it would just be the situation
inspiring you to burn the reserves
to spend the energy
to see things as they really are,
for a moment or for a day

like the old woman
who's body has died
shut down
but chooses to live until morning
because thats when her son's flight comes in

surely if she can hold the gates of death aloft for twelve hours
I can hold back this curtain