The pivot of life…And I am brave not weary!: A poem 

Did you witness a crunch time when all 

comes falling back at you; and you just thought  

you were the pinch-hitter. Now, the baseball cap 

made you realise your strengths. I am just batting  

like a friend (righteous mighty leader) in the distant West. I don’t  

detect any anomalies in an unnamed friendship! 

But the treachery against us, is also common ground! 

Right from the time I was a little child, I felt like 

I was narrating a story; and it was an epigram.  

You know there is satire in every comitragedy. 

I barely imagined that I would be full-on face to face 

with it soon. It was unsheathed as silently as the noble secrets  

I held. And I stood for nobility all my life, so where should  

I think was the pivot of my life, in my discovering the treachery; 

In my discovering the love of my life; and all the loves I couldn’t  

do without. Or, in discovering distant profound unconversed love 

for brothers in arms, and my Captain-King. See, they always try  

to make me discriminate between my loves. So, I can never love  

and never choose. But do you think that I feel defeated by it!  

But I dare to venture into the territories of every enemy  

and stake my claim. You think I need to be shame-faced about  

taking back the fruits of my orchard, stolen, and sorry in their campsite 

 storerooms. I am as reckless with their treachery as I am wise and patient  

with their rapine. You know treachery has no wisdom  

but the sleight of connivance. And the last pivot in my life was 

when I let them know who I was and what I stood for. I bare as I dare! (Thank you, dearest DT!) 

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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