What is victory or defeat?: A poem 

Would this light be foreshadowed 

or overshadowed, or simply be cornered  

taken away before it melted out of its density 

left in the arms of burglary. You have still called it light! 

And must the shade of darkness, left behind, propel you to reclaim the loss? 

Does the universe of such disparateness have only threads and no spine 

that it cannot remember or vindicate that which was divine? 

The artist has found that his palette must only seek 

the contours of his primal creation; the artwork 

being irreplaceable, inimitable. How does a magnum opus  

reassemble itself after being violated by inimicality? 

I have opened myself to a resurrection from each devastation 

like a cloud that brings rain, even after it dissipates 

I am not a desert that only reminds itself of past profusion 

You can see that abundance narrows down to a point 

where every fallen particle rises back to a unison 

But this must be beyond that poison! 

Am I waking up to sleep, or is it another awakening 

beyond contradiction? The story was not foretold; 

yet was everything, that repeated, preordained. That God should  

find himself on the frontiers of defeat…and win back the trophy! 

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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