I lived in unacknowledged kindness: A poem 

I have a relentless windswept notion of life 

like a violinist suddenly losing his fiddle 

and retrieving it with sheer magic, as if 

he could airplay his creation, his music 

I asked myself did I have any exposure, 

a talent breaking out like a fledgling 

And I thought, I am so old. Never mind. 

What after a cruel conscription. You know, 

sometimes I wonder, if it is safer to be in prison 

than fall into the belly of an overstimulated world! 

I am not worried that I payed all the capital gains tax 

when I did not make material capital of anything! 

I insist it is a sadness but not a pronounced grief 

We all have melancholia, but we shouldn’t go brittle with it! 

Regrets are when you harm others to demolish their righteousness, 

not when you sincerely want to save them from evil! 

You can say I have learnt my lessons from copping 

an evil so overwhelming, that it had no remorse 

in the manipulation of everything and everyone against me! 

I was resolute that against the exhaustion of compulsion and such treachery, 

I would still have me secure my sanity and belief systems 

You know death is no escape to the gravity of such treachery 

For, the treachery is an infliction and anomaly on origination and eternity! 

And one can spread one’s wings in deeds, that no one sees 

as deeds. And your flight is not overshadowed by  

the lack of insight and vision of others. 

I don’t have broken dreams, for I only retained perspective 

Even seeming promises of offers, through closure, was no allure in my indomitable fairness 

There is a faith beyond imagination, that is enough sustenance 

And keeps a soul from breaking despite an overwhelmingly evil stranglehold! 

Do we submit from frustration, or do we live our lives  

reliving the pain and never dying of failure of conviction 

I am not a tall, strong statured person; indeed, 

strength comes from will, when you have to wrestle  

daunting opponents all the time, without knocking them down! 

Seriously, there was too much generosity even in my tussle 

I am just acting out of a glory, that nobody acknowledged; 

Most of the time, not even me. Even my oft rage was a benefit 

to someone, somewhere, who deserved that due! 

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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