This world has veneer, but no shine!: A poem 

Did I sing you all a lyric 

that caused to make you all very sick? 

It didn’t make sense, because it was dense 

with the rhythmic gist of apocalypse! 

It didn’t pretend to rave and praise 

the magic of technology, but sage in the nature 

of the mind of antiquity, not a future mature in AI 

that can bely your limbs and imaginative eye! 

I am no stranger to wisdom that begat kingdoms 

But the race for supremacy may have speed 

but have the culture of leads to weed and seed! 

I can say, that wisdom wakes up weak this season; 

Even if prophecy is discounted as limp, and with  

no logic or reason. You can dig up the past with a trowel 

and think how far you can travel; and even the  

mystery of time you can unravel! 

But one fine spring’s day, I saw a light 

and I knew it was my reflection alright! 

God in disguise saying: I am thine, 

thou art mine! But this world is not sublime. 

Cast its treachery to scum and slime! 

It has veneer, but no shine! 

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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