Am I schizophrenic?

Does anyone think it is fair

for shrinks to diagnose without care?

It is my life that has been changed

because some quack says I’m deranged.

This judgment leads me to despair.

A genius in the making e’er

I saw my mother standing there.

her death had made us quite estranged.

Could I be schizophrenic?

I told my wife I was aware

of Mama’s presence in our lair.

She stiffened with abruptness strange

when I told her of our exchange.

Was Mama’s presence just a chimer’?

Or am I schizophrenic?