Do I feel like Alexander?: A poem 

Do I even imagine, that my last stop  

would be the sky I wished to become? 

It is hues more than blue; I can conjecture, 

even if I may not have a clue! Yet, my wonderment  

at every new, is as honest as a child’s  

at the gift of a chocolate. Why do we break 

streets to renew them? I only think of an  

innocent chat with myself for rejuvenation. 

Am I troubled by finiteness, when there is  

a discovery, a realisation, to be made every moment?  

My thoughts are my self-acknowledged inventions. 

It is a laughter of enlightenment; like an infant 

chuckling in humour at every new word it learns. 

I am replete with such stars; though they are not all; 

unlike the vocabulary of a dictionary 

So, I have much to conquer. And I am no railway train 

only restricted to the tracks of its journey. 

But am I to discover frailty and futility; 

like Alexander the Great at Delphi’s Oracle,  

shouting his frustration at the pronunciation 

that his death will manifest before 

his round-trip of the world? 

Published by montecyril

Hi, I am Monte Cyril Rodrigues and live in Melbourne, Australia. I am a retired journalist. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I've had voices and visions all my life. I think it is a spiritual experience, my doctors think otherwise. I am a deeply spiritual person and keep having experiences with otherworldly realms.

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