Insane From Psychotic Visions

Insane From Psychotic Visions
© Surazeus
2018 04 27

When people first saw visions of events
they predicted would occur in the future,
other people were awed at their weird foresight,
proclaiming them prophets and oracles
because their brains programmed ability
to analyze sequence of forceful actions
and conceive process of cause and effect,
so it seemed they must possess magic power.

Those people who predict future events
survived the destructive catastrophe
while those who could not were killed in wars,
so clever wizards bred new generations
who multiplied to populate the world
and with each new generation the wiser
bread more children who outwitted the fools,
and so today the world is full of wizards
who can all predict possible events.

Around one hundred years ago, in growth
of this magic ability in foresight,
so many people could predict the future
they all went insane from psychotic visions
that failed to reflect the real world of forms,
so they were locked in mental hospitals
where they got lost in strange dreams of desire.

I may have done a lot of stupid things
in my life, but never more than one time.