Legalizing Madness

Why do we legalize madness?

Why do we refuse to treat it?

Why do we make the abnormal, normal

Just to support a habit?

Why do we take our standard

From what the animals do

And argue if it’s normal for the animals

It must be normal for us too?

After all, we are higher animals

And should do as they do,

All are entitled to the basest things

Yes, even if it’s a depraved view.

Take for example the argument:

What animals do is natural

And what is natural is normal

It logically follows, therefore, normal must be moral.

So that since this is a truism

Why then should it not be legal?

If it is natural for the animals

Then it should be moral for all people.

Talking about a quantum leap

Like as in mechanics and physics!

If that is not a leap into space

Then tell me, “What is it?”

So now you see just where we are

Why madness must be legalized!

If this is intellectual thinking

Why should you or I be surprised?

There is a special logic for fools

And there is one for mad people too,

So that sooner or later and perhaps sooner,

There will be one for any view.

The good Lord created two genders

It was a fairly uncomplicated world,

Now there are over one hundred

Doesn’t anyone think that is absurd?

Following is a test I am giving you

You can do it with your iPhone,

Ask “Siri” how many genders there are

And you’ll see that this madness is full-blown.

Gender is different from when I was young

At present, I am sixty-six years old,

It is now defined as how you feel inside

At least, that is what I’ve been recently told.

So straight up you see the dissonance

I can feel different from what I am,

And if I cannot be entitled to what I feel

Well, I would be better off damned.

There is even a gender for the genderless

Like the “I don’t want to be any gender",

Then there is one for let me change when I please

That one we will call transgender.

The stable door has been opened

And the horse has unapologetically bolted,

The floodgates have released their eager waters

And only a relative few have noted.

If a poll were to be taken tomorrow

I wonder what the outcome would be,

Somehow I feel we would legalize the madness

Because most of us are too blind to see.

There is a group I especially fear

It is those of the apathetic persuasion,

They could not care one way or another

It is no obstacle to their aspirations.

But then there are those that sympathize

Why can’t a person become what he feels?

Happiness is, after all, life’s objective

That’s one thing we won’t let someone steal.

So the verdict goes to the abnormal

Call it the new normal if you please,

I like to be cheeky and I tease a lot

But please be advised, this poem is not a tease.

Legalizing this madness is where we are headed

Open your eyes and see,

Or else you’ll regret the day you were born

And the two genders that caused you to be.

A person’s orientation can be anything

For we all live in a fallen world,

In heaven, Lucifer attempted to overthrow God

And at the time, he didn’t think that was absurd.

Stewart Russell © September 2019