I am present in a past, and never absent from it!: A poem 

I just think how the leaves can sustain 

themselves in frosty weather? How does the 

chlorophyll in their bloodstreams save them from 

mildewing, unlike flotsam timber caught in the 

slipstream of partly frozen rivers?! And I think, 

there is no deep-freeze on the past! The landslide 

brings it down the snow-covered mountains, 

like hard soil unearthed again, not permafrost! 

I am just divining the messages encoded in my DNA, RNA 

that scientists haven’t discovered yet; like an exploration 

of a long-lost Motherland. There were many times 

I said: “Screw it!”, to the present; because I have no 

Illusions about it. I can’t be 28 every day. And its decrepitude 

has no consoling rectitude. And I never did condone evil! 

Talk of forgiving the hyenas, who are keen to press their  

fangs into victims without remorse, again and again. 

And someone out there tells me to turn the other cheek! 

Would you reckon I want my soul to be rapined as well 

as my flesh and blood would be? Or do you think there was a solution to 

Mars being infiltrated by evil aliens, compelling its destruction!

So, would be Atlantis, slipping like an onion-peel under the Antarctic! 

There is an insidious abjection in the present that marks 

a Rubicon as a point of no return; where the ice point leaves all  

the fake gimmickry unthawing and non-resilient to the eventuality 

of the apocalyptic explosion! Yet, I see my Mars as a young planet 

waiting for the succour of restitution. Did you think Jacob had 

only a shtik to play for your convenience! He may have loved Dan and Reuben,  

but he panged eternally in despair for his stolen Joseph! I am still very much in love 

with all those I love, in the past and unseemly present, and the future. 

Her contralto voice keeps humming over my resplendent Mount  

Olympus Mons of yore, becoming an alto in the memory of its 

verdant slopes. I am not only James digging the past for his Sarah(!), 

I am looking for what the presumptuous conscience-abandoning evil forbade –  

the infinite tiny point (bindu) of the beginning!  

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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