Jashmina, what do you reckon?: A poem 

Jashmina, do you relive my sacrifice for you 

in everything that you do? Or is your conscience  

just a fold in your soul, or a mountain that 

expresses itself like a bridge of succour 

to the one standing with the piety to exalt truth 

but has to bear undeserved punishment for it? 

Do you wish to perpetuate an evil and pretentiously 

enshrine truth in a mausoleum, where it will be  

buried (entombed) for eternity. Does fear drape you in a frock  

that is blatantly weaved by the irony of betrayal? 

Must honesty be hidden like a nudity within the front 

of failure to confront treachery? Must my integrity 

be slayed to be paraded as slivers in a shop for hypocrites 

who want to masticate on my convictions? 

Did I valour for truth and justice, to be tonsured   

by you, and be chained to the pillars of the temple 

of falsehoods, and be so enervated at the crunch situation,  

that I can no longer bring down the roofs and columns  

of the edifice on the heads of my tormentors? 

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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