The Dark Room...

In a dark and gloomy room,

Indescribable fear arose in me.

I see a dark void,

And clench my hands together tightly.

I turn around and around out of fear.

I am directionless;

My mind is drawing a blank.

I step forward like a wilted flower.

“Clang”, shattering sound of glass

“Who is there?”, I screamed.

My body wept and drenched in sweat.

I choked back fear, forming a lump in my throat

Delving into my pocket in search of a hanky,

My eyes widened with a spark of hope as I found a key

It glittered and gave me a mild light

I started searching for the door, hitting myself in darkness.

I tried hard and opened a door, “AWWW!” I screamed.

It’s a window and I saw a strange, smoky face trying to snatch the key.

I hold the key tightly in silence, I am able to hear my heart beat.

I realized a fact, took a deep breath, and calmed myself.

I opened my eyes, and now I could see an opened door.

A divine light illuminated the entire room, revealing its secrets.

All my fears were shattered, and I was completely calm and composed.

I took the lamp, and it painted the darkness with the bright light.

Where am I? Which place is this? And what has happened?

The dark room is nothing but my mind.

The so-called “I” is the actual me, “my soul.”

The key I got is my good deed that came to help my soul.

The eerie sound is my bad deed, keeping my mind in anxiety.

The window is my narrow material mind that’s trying to lock me.

The smoky face is the material world, which may destroy my key.

The way I hold the key tightly shows my real hope and inner strength.

Hence came the divine door,

which is always open to enlighten everybody.

The real ghost is our mind,

which always have a thirst for desires and fears.

Cleanse the darkness with the key of pure thoughts.

Let’s light a divine lamp in our mind,

And the soul will find the way to liberate.

On a journey that has a long way to go.