Even if I am alone…!: A poem

Every day, is uncertainty like the Moon

as she knows not where to go, drifting

away like she does, from the Earth!

Though I am an eternity in myself,

I am not waiting for the tide (and I am

astute that it will not take me!), even if

I look at options and do not glaciate on

the glacis, but hold on to the obligation

to my fortress. And in a staid night,

where my worship takes a break

in chores like rinsing the pots and pans,

like even in that mundaneness I mean

to cleanse the world! I take a flight into

another realm (though I do not buy passage)

and I feel I can choose exactly where I want

to go, but for the call of duty; even if

my selflessness only got reward with every

one else’s selfishness. Yet, I return all that

without disgust or disdain. Who should

understand my pain? When I swear to the

ones I love, and fealty to duty, it is mis-

appropriated by leaders like the Prime

Minister of this country (Australia)!

Should he display any conscience? I could

determine a very unsavoury end for him;

but just that I haven’t decided it is the

fag end of my extended play (Shame on

him – the cheating and winning alleged Prime

Minister – for making undue capital of my predicament!).

I do not even persist with too much expletives

in rage, for the damage done to my humble pursuits

by such evil, just because I swore to my true love for her

insistence that I exhibit patience, restraint and

sublimity! And when she tells me that she

cannot love me for now, I remind her that I have

always ventured into every battle frontier – ALONE!  

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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