If I advocated for myself, it was only in vitrescent!: A poem 

I discovered I couldn’t bite the wind 

with my teeth; but I could swallow 

it gustily into my lungs! I discovered 

I became altogether ambidextrous 

with my penchant for nothingness! 

It is as if by accident you realise your 

abilities are more than what they seemed  

to even yourself; like circumstantial evidence 

that speaks volumes of your being, no mere brick wall, 

but an entire fortress in stone. So many 

need to take a bow to you, but you silently  

shone your strength through the corridors  

of challenges, not many, without selflessness,  

would have taken! And you never spoke about 

it to anyone else, not even to your own imagination! 

There are utter intrigue, immense cloak and dagger; 

And you in your bravery, winning no global statuettes! 

Let the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, and Nobel 

Prizes, go to whoever they please. You know the word 

recognition, but you care not for its reciprocation! 

And you are so silent, without the demographics of 

proclamation, but for your blog site! Like you were a book  

that was never meant to be opened. Like you were a stone, 

engraved on the inside, and not on the surface! And you 

hastened to consign all their promises to the horizon,  

that never arrives or is never reached! So that all their lies 

be met with their consternationed sighs! And if you can state that you 

are on Cloud Nine for it, or any other cloud?! Because  

they miscue you and cannot tell you. Because you are 

an evaporation to their consolidation. So that they want 

to judge you, to misjudge you – so that they can punish 

you unjustly!! Whose was the vituperation and treachery, if  

you only rallied to protect yourself! Not yours, surely! 

If conjecture was yours to behold truths, and their  

conjecture was only misconceptions to deliver them 

misgivings. And you are as lucid as see-through crystal 

and they are as opaque as deceitful smoke and mirrors! 

And I know I believed, and was convicted, and lived in 

bastions of truth! Swearing myself in the agonies of cruelty 

that unpardonably befell and beset me; And I stand to  

make myself clear in self-advocacy now, so late in a vitrescence 

of life; after the lifetime of ignominy done to me!!!  

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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