From air to air: A poem

This is not an ephemerality for a palpability in the

backdrop of civilisational existentialism. A leaf falling

from a tree may be presumed consigned to dust, but

its spirit resurrects beyond autumnal cataclysm. A petal

drops, fathomed dead, onto the floor of the earth, but its dewy tender fragrance

seeps through timelessness! We are just a warp of comprehensions,

not mitigated by belief, until we awake! For the reality of the soul can supersede

the calamity of the forces! You know, in the solitudinal surety,

you have a guarantee that life cannot break you, and death cannot too!

And you are no mannequin in a shop-window disused or ready to

be taken down; despite your loneliness and seeming redundancy and

dispensability! And even when you seem forlorn, you exist beyond

the automation of ordinary movement. And even when you move on the periphery

of society, you can make or break! And even if you think you are a distant

soliloquy, you are silently making the headlines of the first page! You are

the edifice that stands each dawn, not the disrepair that crumbles each night.

Even the night is like a structure of morning calm, and there is an equanimity

in the randomness or seeming chaos; as if you felt certain in the darkness

where exactly the first point of sunrise lies! So, you can live by your means to an

end where death is no pronunciation of imprisonment but a conviction of

your freedom of continuity! The air you breathe is the air that fills you with

the chest-swell of pride and dignity! It is the air that fecundates your breath… that makes loneliness

liveable, alleviates despair, raises your disposition and spirit like the string of a flagpole,

takes your troubles away, snaps the jargon of grief into the language of cheer, and fills

the airspace around you with an aura of colours! Like the final vapour of self-awareness

that gives you the courage to become a being of ultimate infinite form!   

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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