If I am plucked away…: A poem 

(This, I should have my detractors know….I will never be intimidated or daunted!) 

I couldn’t be bothered 

if nothing ends with me… 

when my life dissipates! 

Do flowers ever cease? 

Their fragrance in an eternal waltz, 

never vaporising in a seamed vault, 

and returning each spring! 

A Phoenix can tell 

even if he is made to fall  

that he will live to tell again! 

Does the wickedness believe 

it can still each resurrection 

against a divine will? 

I know what I began, 

when the curtains rose on the grand opera! 

I was not just its phantom; 

if you realise the masterclass 

and masterstroke of the ceremonial master 

that has its cryptic indentations on the structure of the Universe! 

My soul can rest easily 

on the gravestone 

as much as the fiery pyre 

And what’s within me is warm, no furnace, 

but a welcoming hearth 

whose love can’t be taken away 

as if the procession of the kindred ones 

are a part of my progression 

that can’t be taken away from me 

even if I am recklessly and ruthlessly plucked away! 

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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