Who is the messiah you are all looking for?: A poem 

I always believed conformity was never a virtue 

And I accepted an anonymity despite being rebellious 

You can say my treatise in anonymity was no pretentious 

humility. Too many people in the know knew about me! And 

the assumed incognito fell out of the walls to the floor as I aged.  

Everyone began to (unspokenly) know, and anonymity was no longer 

my disguise. I am much the lyric of troubadours as much 

as the unannounced mythic hero that never sought  

anyone’s validation, but seemingly reckless with a method 

(seeming madness) that mattered. And it was fine that it was unwelcome to 

most, most of the time. I was reclusive, but did not seek refuge  

from the overwhelming cruelty that besieged me! I didn’t  

abscond from the pressures of circumstance!  I lived among the  

shadows of risky adventures. I didn’t let the weather shape me! 

You can see the climate followed my precipitations of will! 

I am always unannounced and never matching presumptions. 

I see evil as a hollow stump that shouts its own vociferousness 

to garner universal sympathy and acknowledgement. Ask me why  

all the falsehoods get humanity’s solidarity? Because, brave heroes do  

not seek recognition or validation. Those who judged the brave 

are morally defunct and dysfunctional. There are people who live 

by the means of their resolute courage and there are people who  

survive and win by capricious, clandestine treachery. Who besmirches 

integrity in misalignments? Who deforms truth by consorting with lies? 

The touted Fool deserves victory, but he only emphasises duty! 

If you chose to walk with the Empath who exposes his Red Book  

with blue ink, so that you all can see the truths, even if it means  

he is laid to waste, then you should not fault him for his courage, just 

because you are all hopelessly resigned to your misbegotten conveniences! His beauty  

is in his duty (without asking for redemption)! Are you shell-shocked  

with his truths that you ostracise him for alleged insanity? You ought to begin to  

realise that he is a rugged, rough-shod beauty; not the dilettante messiah you 

were all looking for! 

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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