O Dad! I wish I could have love, like I have truth: A poem 

Without the mirror, I can see my reflection 

on a cloudy day that bears a figment of sadness 

But I have always been strong in my eternal wander, 

even in the loneliness that I never sought, but was prone to be always found! 

Should I endeavour to create my own sound of the world around 

me and not be called a lunatic! If you think I should surrender  

to every profane arrangement that gheraos me, should I then 

presume it is the promise of love (even in its falsity); when I’d rather prefer to be in the arms 

of my aloneness than be defaulted by treachery. They have blindfolds on me 

to take away my dignity in an imposed sublimation of myself to every evil. My foot(!) with which I kick them! 

The shit be on their faces! All of you! That you have been an insult to 

my honesty and integrity, so villainously subscribing to appease the 

evil that wants to waylay me. And from the doldrums that all this wickedness  

casts me into, I am still profoundly brave to shatter those steel cages 

as if they were glass cages. Dad, I really want to hold you in my arms as  

my infant son, but how can I walk through these minefields of treachery  

and torture, putting you as well at risk?! 
 

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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