Explorations at Greystone* Chained fences blocked our advances We climbed them with reckless abandon We entered the corridors of the soul. Possessed by the spirits of long gone patients Lobotomized ghosts of our former selves We explored the hallways of the body We hunted for sanity in the darkness And discovered patient logs strewn across the floor Abandoned by the doctors (in more ways than one) We traced the words written on the walls We examined the underground tunnels of the mind And heard the desperate outcries of the hopeless Silently screaming in their catatonia We reached through the metal bars over the windows We tried to touch the sky * In 1924 The State Asylum for the Insane in New Jersey was renamed Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, it officially closed in 1998.
