Tired of the crazy rock and roll, in an optionless reality?!?: A poem 

(Who wants to steal my life when I want to live a little?) 

You know one can be made to feel 

so alien, that one becomes a stranger 

to oneself. Call it peer pressure, that one 

handled so well all along(!); until an imposing 

system got one’s thorax caught in wanton suffocation! 

One thought that all the petals of sacrifice 

never wilted in ones secluded garden for  

eternity, but now for the gross infringement! 

Yet, some are shouting: Encore! And some are 

beseeching one to stop! Some are falsifying-alleging 

at one’s mental health, swearing to incarcerate you; 

for ones being an eternal dancing dervish,  

spinning on one’s feet, arms widespread in rotations 

and revolutions; all this dizzy pain, not just for ones  

own sake, but to salvage other people’s souls! 

And when does one stop(?), when something keeps 

telling one to be untired by one’s sheer will, despite 

one’s extreme tiredness…To be a source with spirit 

still left in it, when all its wherewithal has exhausted! 

Does one wish to tell them, at times, one feels so cut up 

that the tiger in you wants to even frazzle out from being  

paper! Yes, they couldn’t see the `gem’iness of your genesis 

and pursuits when they left you beleaguered for an eternity! 

How is an innocent left to languish in a prison for so long? 

But one has no regrets! Are they still placing bets on all 

things yours, those abduction-intentioned creeps, fighting over 

your vestments, after they’ve stripped you to scourge you? 

One knows profoundly Left from Right; Wickedness from  

Righteousness; but for the caper of treachery that compels 

one to be abrogatory of one’s own and cause one’s immense toiled 

constructs to self-destruct! So, whom does one remind that the  

wealth of falsehoods is much better without reach? Are they  

listening when one tells them implicitly that what’s due forward 

or backward is just an eerie strange vacuous monstrous Age 

if it is hijacked between one evil or the other. There is no forward, 

no backward, then, and I certainly don’t want to stay put; my filaments 

rather dissipate in disgust! So, should I stop this crazy rock and roll; 

dispossess the older honky-tonk and renounce the future AI-tronic 

musical junk! Then, should I just wish for death; like a tree whose 

only destiny is to be cruelly sawn off? What is living, if death seems 

the only way out?! When, each time the flower tries to live, it only  

risks being `vazed in’ by the body grabbers and rapiners for their own ends! 

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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