True love, sacrifice is fine – but not self-destruction!: A poem 

If you have the happiness of sadness 

then grief is no coffin in pressing departure 

And one feels no sorrow in stoic bravery, to a point! 

And you can evolve in the calmness of the substance of treasures 

even if you have an inkling of the eventuality that the evil 

may attempt to take even that away! 

And one feels no panic in the storm 

that blows away your rooftops and leaves 

you drenched. And you fend off tears 

and believe in your conviction, faith and resolutions 

because you know the submission is an irreconcilable deluge  

that you submerge into only because you feared the drenching! 

And you fold your stoic self like a garment 

and keep it into the closet of silence. Even the silence  

when you start to speak, if you dare to confound  

the evil with your truths because they want to manipulate them 

or want to punish you because they cannot size you up and are confused! 

And you only bare yourself because you want to teach people 

the truth, so that they can protect themselves from the evil 

and they, in return, misunderstand and misjudge you; and you are only left feeling  

mightily compromised! And when True Love preaches to you  

her ideology of patience and restraint; you tell yourself you can 

be more destructive (or even just collateral damage) than the  

evil that besieges you. And you want to show them you are not  

just a sleep-induced soporific. But you hold back your aggression  

like you hold back your tears! And then, you want to tell your  

True Love that you’d rather go from this world because  

sacrifice is all too fine, but not self-destruction! 

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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