maybe it's not madness,
maybe it's sheer creativity.
maybe it's not depression,
maybe it's unexpressed rage.
maybe it's not anxiety,
maybe it's restlessness of spirit.
maybe your biggest downfall
is the strength that will save you.
maybe "mental illness" is an episode
of raw human emotion that you didn't
know how to process.
maybe all it takes is a small adjustment
to the lens through which you see the world.
a small shift. each day. every day.
to see
that you haven't seen
what you thought you saw.
Markets of Tripoli, Lebanon 2010.