On The Outside Looking In

On the outside looking in
Reminded how it was back then.
Sanity the road not taken.
How bad I was still shaking.

I thought I had tried it all.
It was long before the fall.
I hadn't given up just, yet.
Sank in the snow cold and wet.

Laughing in a hysterical fit.
Well this ought to do it.
Sitting in the snow in despair.
A friend had taken me there.

I say a friend; Didn't know him.
Found that he was just like them.
Like me they had made the trip.
Grabbed my coat; It didn't rip.

Led me through the closed door.
I hadn't ever been there before.
I didn't know what to expect.
My life had became a real wreck.

I can still see that door, today.
Glad I followed their new way.
It was new to me; But old I guess.
How everything was a total mess.

Opening the door without knocking.
At first even that was shocking.
Today, I do it all the time.
Then though I was just a mime.

On the outside looking in
I see the faces of friends.
How I see things has changed.
Different from that one deranged.