Should I linger, despite my reluctance?: A poem 

Do you know, I was thinking of going away 

far from here, where I felt you took the halo 

off my grounds, off my crown! I was like a 

garden devoid of leaves and flowers, only 

hedgerows, reminding me of a rectangular 

maze with only blind alleys. I looked over  

my fences and saw the luxuriance of other 

gardens, but I didn’t rue, I didn’t cry. My sense  

of duty stood proud in my life’s desertification! 

Would I still believe that you were that ascending  

rainbow, touching my soul and taking me into 

the elevator of colours beyond the skies, beyond  

the stars. Must I still believe in turning around the 

curb and finding the wonders of the world, the 

Universe. I only write some free verse to these 

conjunctions of sartorial enigmas of love. Are they 

just a costume disguise? Is there anything profound,  

deeper than epidermic embellishments of words and  

promises, and sounding resonant to the Universal core?  

I had immense faith, and suddenly I started beginning  

to devolve into the arms of scepticism.  Suddenly, to feel 

cynically aware of the surrounds of deceit and delusion. I know there 

is no candour about being wordy, but my being wordy is 

only a profusion to desperately reinstate the virtue of 

Justice, that I altogether placed in you and Dad. If there 

was love beyond the stars, beyond the diametric expanse  

of the Universe, you could count on me! So should I linger in  

the waiting and live in hope once again? Or should I plot my  

departure once and for all? 

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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