Memory is like your roots, but how far?: A poem 

(Could they be still trying to take away my Godhood from me?) 

Did you think it was only nostalgia 

And you panged to revisit, in spite of the sadness and pain it caused you 

Did the eternity blacken out every rock that causes you to shiver 

as if it thought it (the memory) better be dropped like shells 

that hide the nut of you, so, but you still retain, still being a somewhat wholesome gift of the past 

in the present; as if a fire was made to burn again, after it died several times over… 

And I can be gravened like a symbol on a stone 

to mark its language for posterity, to trace its own roots in the reincarnating; a life resumed 

to echo the same old aspirations in new garments 

This is about memory, so deep back that childhood only seems recent 

I can even tell the numerous faces of love 

They are trainwrecks of time to be fastened again to the flow 

on the tracks of time, itself again. There are beaten paths once again that we recognise, 

As we remember we live on-stage in the same old tricks of theatrical destiny 

And you remember God in your mirror! And how many times 

they tried to take you away from yourself. 

Should you have a bearing that sustains beyond bearing?! 

This life may not seem brilliantly ebullient, but it is my life that I make of it – 

of such magnitude, that its grace is a endless fountain from all its immense difificulty! 

And when you feel sadder, that memory though can’t be shortened, 

can’t be lengthened either; when the universe keeps 

expanding and no more the stars/ cells of your soul communicate  

with their dusty lights at each other; but are so far dispersed 

that they fall silent in the eerie surrounds of their ultimate aloneness!  

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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