How to be free and obtain freedom, O Gulliver?!: A poem 

Would I walk in the woods of the night 

where I don’t know if the star-spangled sky 

are yellow lights signaling me in or shunting  

me out? If I had wisdom to perceive the ribaldry 

of a destiny compelled by villains? But I am  

not going to be contemptuous of the sky or the stars, 

even if I am disgraced with overlying treachery! 

This has become an ironical habit, a walk in pervasive 

comitragedy. I see a unicorn in a distance, 

and when I am about to touch its mythic beauty, 

I realise it is just wet paint. At least, realisation  

still doesn’t fail me before I leap headlong into a well; 

even if percipience does. I look to the stars for  

a gift of perspicacity, they tell me they are mightily 

constrained. I am just amazed at the hobgoblins  

set forth by the treachery all over the place to 

subdue me. Am I Don Qixote talking to my absent 

Sancho Panza; waiting in the delirium of passion  

or dispassion? Am I convict or convicted about  

my mission against the demons pervading my  

circumstances and making it a whirlpool predicament! 

I am certainly not Alice in Wonderland? When I jumped 

hemispheres, I didn’t stop being embattled? Is Oz my home? 

I am a nomad out of compulsion! All ye sinews of Canberra, 

you cannot still me! I dare you at your own risk of eternal 

damnation! I have no sympathy for evil using flaccid 

coercion tactics! These are the colours and shades I have  

resolutely and determinedly Donned! Seems like the origin  

and its contents were the only things righteous. Everything  

that followed from the rapined source of all things was evil  

by default! This is damnation that you all believe is your comfort  

Zone! Somehow, I feel that I am a walking sapling, walking in  

the forest of a hairy chest of a divine beast. As I negotiate the  

spaces between these seemingly humongous trees, I begin  

to feel convicted about what the trees are whispering to me:  

That I became Lilliputian to manifest the freedom of the bound  

Gulliver, who is the spirit of me and everyone and everything that I love and cherish! 

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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