If I were a fool, and continue to be one, and be proud!: A poem 

Look at me, and my tunic with all its wormholes! 

These wormholes to posterity; where I witness 

my birth and death and resurrection; in a timescale  

of a moment. So that I know my own defeat, as a purpose! 

That this knowledge like drops of vinegar on my  

thorn-crowned soul mitigate its suffering. And be called  

an aloe. You know the labyrinth survives everyone who tries to 

overcome it; but their bravery sees it fall figuratively  

to the ground of its own tortuous treachery. I am alive and cavalier in my 

impromptu death, that it is not an accident of fate; but of an external incorrigible connivance 

that responds to the desperation of its own survival and triumph every time it is  

walled to its back! When you can discern who is stigmatised,  

and who actually deserves the stigmata? We are bound by books that  

tell us a different tale. The real martyr is your witch consigned to the 

burning stake. Would you care to think there is a fool in every braveheart 

enduring the witch-hunt of the truth? Like the fool I’ve always been,  

prostrating myself to defeat, but never to the treachery. If you 

understand the oblivion of the true saviours who are so kindhearted 

that they step into the backdrop, so the world survives, through every victory of the villainous!  

So, there is no untimeliness in the timeliness of the Fool’s Paradise 

in the celebration of his beleaguered life and palpable defeat, but invisible victory! 
 

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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