There goes the lunatic

There goes the lunatic they say Off she goes on her own in her finest dress Face painted with too much makeup Knotted hair and smelling of cheap perfume She says she comes from the stars Lived on the moon And swam with the sharks She says she will forever be young in this world and the one she really comes from Every morning she smiles as she walks by the shops She knows they laugh behind her back But she slows her pace and waits for the sound of their laughter As they whisper, there goes the lunatic Too kind for words Too humble for tears She looks down at her feet and smiles She taps the tips of her gold shoes on the sidewalk Tap dances as she goes Looking up at the sky Singing out loud There goes the lunatic Children run by and sing with her There goes the lunatic Some spit at her, others kick her She remains humble and stares at the sky I’ve come here to this place you call earth To live amongst the human beings of this planet To experience humanity at its best To create my life and feel the joy of what humans are meant to feel To feel life To know life To experience life in all of its contrast I know mankind can be kind I know mankind can be cruel But I know mankind can be like me and not know they are me Many turn away from fear of themselves To see their true reflection and see what’s really there I like to see whom smiles back at me My mirror reflects no lies There I go again, smiling at me That’s me, the lunatic in the mirror Suzanne Mondoux 14 August 2020 See you tomorrow

15 August 2020 My real name is Luna And I come from a planet not of your universe But from a universe with only one planet One star and one moon I like to sing, and I think I sing very well I like to dance, and I think I dance very well My favourite singer on your planet is Freddie Mercury I see him here and there on occasion I see many humans who want to sore free in their every day life But I see that they fear their greatest freedom But I’m here to experience my own life I’m the lunatic they say I’m the freak everyone talks about I’m famous I suppose for who I am and not who I pretend to be This morning during my walk I saw bird on the ground It had fallen from its nest in the tree Mother bird cried from above I picked up the bird and stretched my arm to reach the nest And placed the bird back in its nest I continued walking to where I was going that morning And that could be where I decided I would go that day When I reached the end of the sidewalk I turned right and headed for the beach I could smell the sea I could taste the salt on my lips I could hear the waves crashing on the beach The gulls sung out loud The seals called out my name From the distance I could see the sharks swim by They poked out their dorsal fin to let me know they were there The seals dare not go in Instead they waited until the coast was real The songs of whales caught my ear I turned and there they were breaching just for me I joined the seals Sat amongst them and watched the show

**There goes the lunatic** 16 August 2020 It was a warm summer day Seawater splashed on my face The waves rolled up to my feet I lay there until sunset waiting for the million little crabs to come up from beneath the sand There they were all around me heading for the water I watched the stars poke through the sky I looked up at my planet Only I could see the other universe with its one planet My planet is orange and yellow It is made mostly of sand and trees The trees are orange and the sand is yellow There are many like me that have traveled to different universes I chose this place you called earth because I had heard so many wonderful things about your blue planet I’m searching for these wonderful things every day and I find something wonderful every day Sometime I don’t even have to leave the house or my back yard I listen to the song written for this blue planet by Freddie Mercury You may have heard of it, *There Must Be More To Life Than This* Why is your world so full of hate? Why do you destroy what you create? Yes, in the end we all must die. But aren’t you curious about living a better life than you’ve created Some say C’est la vie… Is it? Anyway this is my moment of reflection It’s time for me to go swim with the sharks again I removed my shoes and my dress I stand naked on the beach under the full moon I stepped into the water and follow the moon lit path I dove beneath the water There they wait for me, the great white shark I grabbed a dorsal fin and off we swam in the deep blue sea Suzanne Mondoux 16 August 2020