Author Archives: montecyril

(Based on the movie Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and a monologue delivered by Captain James T Kirk – William Shatner) We travel to places where we have been before like migratory beasts, walking from shore to shore, from grove to grove, grassland to grassland; that’s how we discover the elephantine emotion in usContinue reading “Hey Wishmaster, I need my pain, to realise and self-aware myself: A poem”

To love: For you, I was made of stardust and solar flare Of everything that is alive in the air I just want to tell you, that it is mostly for you that I did dare! You think, sometimes to betray the divine is fine! But remember, it is cold stony ware! To Mother: SoContinue reading “Does subtlety hide behind the obvious?: A poem”

You are with all the gold and precious metals inlaid, All the emeralds and diamonds, of such value made How they posteritised you unjustly as Mary Magdalene’s maid? My eternal love for you, will have all that waived! O my Sarah, the spirit of my timeless alchemy The fire that purgates me and purifies me!Continue reading “O Sarah! My beautiful Sarah!: A poem”

The secrets interlocked in the shrouds of mystery were interlaced in your womb, where I gestationed only for six-and-a-half months, yet was wholesome; even though I lost my twin sister, and the doctors wrote me off at birth. O Mother, I knew the nurture of your mammalary even if I was too frail and unformedContinue reading “O Mother! My Virago from Mars, Neptune, Venus and the Sun!: A poem”

I am not just a vapour exhaled by the earth to die in the ephemerality of a moment(!); I am so old, I could have died with age and antiquity; but I kept burning, like a child who musters evergreen timelessness such that he can forget his name and years, decades and centuries, but neverContinue reading “I am sworn to keep burning….: A poem”

I didn’t think I needed someone else’s song, to rivet in a ding-dong, to play along I just sought a lyric in candour every time I shut my own door! In my heart, at least I know I want to be in a place I was before Mum was in step with me, with aContinue reading “I didn’t think I needed someone else’s song to get along!: A poem”