Delusions Deconstructed (poem)

Delusions Deconstructed (poem)

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These days I talk to God

The walls have fallen all around me

In the debris lies my hubris

With assorted delusions of peace by action

The wisdom I had was only a mirror's reflection 

In a world full of a twilight that shines in a million shades

I do not solve problems 

I am one.

I throw up my hands

In prayer and supplication

In the ways of a defeated man 

Finding shattered glasses

in a palace of illusions.

I see monkeys in human form

Launch missiles from their memoried tales

Lighting up night skies 

to slay the internally dead.

I talk to God these days

His silences still echo from the mountains of my  shaken being 

  -- Madhavan N (2026)