Socrates: An unexamined life is not worth living: A poem 

Would you have known virtue from spiritual folly 

had you ventured to look at your reflection? Or would  

you just breathe in gloating at your apparent beauty? 

Were you conditioned to believe in enhancements, 

grooming, make-up, nose-jobs and botox? I would have  

wondered to tell an age that wants to make itself 

sexually appealing that there is only a loose beauty 

in your idea of beauty, and a very lame imagination 

in your illusion of fulfilment. Philosophers can go hungering 

without sustenance but be sustained on ideology. And they  

would pursue their beauty in debate to prove their point.  

How would beauty suit them, in their rugged unkempt appearances, 

if they were proven wrong about their beliefs? Mystics are, finally, ahead of all! 

They wouldn’t even care to propagate their silent secrets like they would care to 

think about their matted beards touching the floor, and one would  

only discover their beauty, after the initial shock of their utterly disheveled  

appearance, if one sought their opinion and answers and savoured the magnificence 

of their unconventional wisdom. Sometimes, poetry can also be an aphorism in  

affirmation or contradiction! It just doesn’t need the sweetest lyric to constitute its beauty! 

Beauty is in introspection, in examining your values, in determining  

the exactness of your beliefs to suit conscience, in not fearing to repudiate injustices,  

in always delivering compassion for the truth, in exemplary acts of virtue 

to help mitigate the spiritual suffering  of others, in learning to be selfless when  

conditioned to the need of sacrifice, in restraining from acts of evil out of selfish 

instinct, in delving into the soul as the real deity of your existence. All this needs an  

examination of self. It’s healthier to depend on introversion than extroversion in a hectic  

morality-depleting artificially intelligent world. Socrates, I only differ with your  

greatness, that you chose hemlock rather than challenge the treachery against you! 

And should I ask Prakash Saint Paul, Anthony Albanese and all those who  

consorted in the relentless villainous treachery against me,  

to examine their conscience, values and belief systems.  

Or is it just connivance for undeserved victory that matters? You ought to be willing  

to suffer for your crimes, not transfer the onus of your crimes by inflicting further treachery on others!  

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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