Creedal Cataracts Cloud the Stranger
Let's workshop this poem about how the mental defenses of the brilliant but insane can become so virtually impenetrable that it would take a saint with the requisite training to implant skepticism
Creedal Cataracts Cloud the Stranger
Only years of expertise,
coupled with the personal stake
of saintly family, could breach
the psychic bulwark: he calls
his figments “interdimensional
emissaries, whispering—
from beyond our consensual
blinders—invitations to a more
capacious cosmovision.”
