In the Void

Here I stand in the midst of nothingness,
Suspended in a state of hazy consciousness,
Staring out far into the space,
Unsure where to go from here.

There's my heart in front of me,
Throbbing away in rhythm,
Sometimes so tiresome that
I shut my eyes
And refuse to believe in it.

I turn back.
Far away at the horizon
Are the people whom I know,
Busy in their worlds,
Too distant to reach out.

I feel detached.

I look forward into the space again.
I close my eyes and feel a suffused light
Slowly engulfing my senses.
A crisscross of black and red,
orange and yellow,
dance before my closed eyes.

And then a piercing shot of electric blue.

Wakes me up from my dreams.
The dusty gray road snakes away before me.
I still don't know where it goes.
But the journey has to continue.


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