I have really enjoyed having Abby from Life @ The Poles visiting us this week.  I have learned so much from her.  I really appreciate all the extra work she has done to have something for us everyday.

Today, Abby shares with us one of her older posts.  One that she is particularly proud of.  She shared with me that she has several other posts she has done that she is proud of.  I encourage you to take a look at her site and see what she has to share there.

Technicolor Coat of Dreams

By ABBY | Published: JULY 23, 2010

“There is a fine line between genius and insanity.”

–

When you can barely tell the real
from the mirage,
when the mirage is your real,
anything is possible.
Nothing is real,
and anything is possible.
(Chaos.)

If you spend long enough there
you can start to believe anything,
just to have something to believe in.
But if you are careful
if you just sit still
and watch
if you let it run through you
and observe
you’ll start to find
things that repeat.
You’ll find threads
that you can begin to weave together
to make something.
Even if it’s only
threads of insanity woven together,
it’s at least consistent insanity.
Nothing is real,
and anything is possible.
(Chaos.)

It turns out
that those threads
are not always
just insanity.
Sometimes
they are just
bits of reality
that needle their way through.
Sometimes though,
if you watch carefully enough
they are what become
your truth,
the principles and rules
upon which you can begin to build
what will keep you together
within the maelstrom of madness.
Nothing is real,
and anything is possible.
(Chaos.)

And in the middle of the chaos
you’ll find some semblance of peace
and you’ll learn
how to silence
the howling winds around you.
You’ll weave together
the truths you’ve so carefully held on to
slowly
so as not to break them.
And out of them
will come your own
technicolor coat of dreams,
woven of the truths you’ve found
when
nothing was real
and anything was possible,
and all around you
was swirling Chaos.
And out of that Chaos,
out of that Chaos,
that is from where you will come.
From the primordial forces
from which all things came
you will come
wearing your technicolor coat of dreams.
And you will see
what is Real
and you will wear
what is True.
Draped around your shoulders
and woven by your own hands
from the threads that run through insanity,
you will have found
the Truth,
the Truth in madness,
and survived.

–

“It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.” – Oscar Levant