A Sane Friend Poem by Barry Middleton

suffering for sanity
is the burden of humanity

sanity can be elusive
and capricious and collusive

the world is crazy I am sure
hold on tightly to endure

insanity is war and hate
terror stalks to haunt our fate

and love should be serenity
stretching to infinity

but love can end destructively
often too impulsively

how is humanity to grow
I pray but yet I do not know

but you and I can join our hands
and hide a while from these demands

just one friend can be enough
to fight for you when life gets rough