Just a lesson in self-perspective, not a treatise in expression of grief!: A poem  

I know there are limits to fortitude, to the ability 

to endure pain. Especially when you think you  

have no recourse to anyone; or you simply don’t 

want to express your emotion.  How do you emote (to calibrate  

pain in the baldness of expression), as if its expression, itself, 

would leave you inconvenienced and sanguinelessly frustrated! 

And your pain is so myriad that you can’t even locate it; 

That its sensation is so confounding that you cannot even 

conjecture whether your own soul is crying through your body, 

because it is constantly being demeaned by others! Or it is those 

villainous `others’ who want to bring you down to your knees 

by inflicting pain surrealistically, yet corporeally, on you! 

I have learnt the tactility of invisible `others’ as much as I 

know the towering presence of my own lack of visibility!   

And then when you feel, helplessly and vulnerably, to scream: Enough is enough!  

you turn around and see the long winding tortuous road you traveled, and 

realise that your own resignation is crueler to you than your 

pain; and you feel convinced there is no turning back, in fact! 

You so awesomely, then, rewire yourself even subconsciously! 

And all those loud-mouthed connivers think you should 

obey, heed, listen; like advice is always forthcoming from 

the wrong corners of the globe, like you don’t want to waste time with people  

who are only selfishly self-seeking, who want to see the exhaustion in the effort  

of your edifice of purpose, and want to flatten it out by making you 

convulse in your grief; and imposingly believe your calling  is only an exercise  

in futility, that you have the only imposing option to SURRENDER! 

 I remember the time I unintentionally astral travelled to a sphere (or was I ferreted away?) 

that was filled with a dour red or orange, the sky, the land, and I encountered 

a white man with a large flowing blonde beard, who shouted in my ear, 

like a gust that turned into a frenzy of crescendoed orchestra, the word: 

Abdico! I wound up with angry angst as I flew back to my bedroom.  

There are no takers for conviction, even among some dimensions, because 

it upsets their applecart of convenience. You know I am not a malady in  

my beliefs, they are more than just a remedy to me, they are an aspiration of resolution of truth and justice!  

I swear! I did not ask for the white emblazoning light that suddenly appeared to me,  

speaking to me, when I was a little boy, that told me my life would be very difficult. I didn’t seem to understand 

the sadness and gravitas of it then! Later on in my life, I traveled to a stone temple 

in the heart of a jungle, so antiquated that the roots of trees and their trunks were growing  

through its walls, and I sank to its threadbare floor, and was greeted by a large snake 

as it slithered toward me and sank its fangs into the top of my head; and I felt the  

unction of liquid pouring into my brain! One day, I saw myself falling through an  

elevator/ cubicle; down and down, I went to base, comprehending staccatoed environs, where  

a large beautifully painted serpent snorted into my face! Was it Viracocha, albeit not feathered?! 

Did I not know when the aliens of skull and bones visited me repeatedly and one day, even  

treated me with sound therapy, wherefrom they were? The sound therapy was meant to  

clear my body of toxins and heal my lungs, that I was burning through chain smoking. 

I did not thank them then; in fact, feeling an animosity for them. I also remember the time 

when, they felt I was defeating their purpose, they attempted to drag my soul out of my body 
 

causing me unbearable pain; and I ended up commanding them to GET FUCKED! 

In retrospect, I don’t think they were my enemies! I felt even worse indignity at those  

very icy morguish pink/blue-faced men-like beings who visited me once, and offered me the Rosary, the crucifix and the Gospels;  

and I promptly told them to shove that paraphernalia down their butts! I know I wasn’t  

imagining when I saw those holograms of thin oval headed creatures with large deep  

luminous eyes telling me of their grief at seeing this world so deviant, so misdirected, so far from the truth, even honesty, even veracity! 

They even showed me an illusion of their spaceship docked in the Chilean Atacama Desert! 

Would I unbelieve that I saw a handsome Winged Prince looking benevolently at me  

one morning, as I stirred from sleep, to reassure me that all is never lost despite the humongous tribulation. 

And a giant from the dimensions, one night, greeting me with a smile that said there is 

pervading simplicity in every perplexity if one understands that the call of duty expects you to respond only to the moment, not to the entirety of it!  

Or Baphomet standing behind me and  clarifying that he was Secret Wisdom, but not Sophia, and he was also reviled like I was! 

What about the time the Devil never left my bedroom for months on end, trying to  

convey to me and convince me that he was not the bad one he was made out to be; that he also suffered  

too much, and worse, was vilified too much! Did I comprehend that the bat out of hell 

was not as bad as the fish of the deep sea; a heaven which does not possess God, but  

claims to us that it owns God! And I treasure my collectived perspective in so many untold episodes of  

experiences, of which, so many will go unrecounted with me to my grave! As much as the  

recollections of the many past lives I’ve led! But should I ever die 

of the extremes of nerve-wracking that I am subject to. I am proud to reckon this profound survival and this  

profounder introspective comprehension of pain in all its complexity; with the understanding that the call  

of duty may be briefly paused but never forsaken. There is no tolerance for the frivolity and  

superficiality of all those misdirected souls who want to instill me with compromise that  

there are many easy ways out, if I should only care to pick them out!  

There is no intrinsic preference for such decadence and degeneration; no subjection to any insinuation; there is no impulse 

for even presuming convenient subordination, which should only engender the despicable and implausible (to me) mortification of my soul.  

There is no practicality to be begotten out of forgiveness of those that committed the most reprehensible crimes against me,  

which is not in my view an exhibition of magnanimity; even if in all yours, it is my impudence. I prefer death to an untimely rigor mortis of my soul! 

It is not a dysfunctional existence to imagine that everlasting silent patient satyagraha is  

the mightiest weapon against the most omnipotent deceit and treachery that manifests the odds of my defeat! 

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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