Darkness, dark all around,
Comfortable it seemed in the dark,
I accumulated things I could not see,
Understood the world, through the darkness,
Ignorance is bliss, so they say,
A false sense of bliss, shrouding despair,
One day, this despair came out in the open,
Despair that I did not understand,
Why is it so, what can I do about it,
Where did it come from, what do I yearn for?
I felt lost, none could understand,
My heart cried out, for something lost I did not remember..
A voice, faint it seemed, called out gently,
At first an imagination I thought it to be,
Went on I did, without heeding this voice,
And then it called again, and again, gentle and soft,
A sweet patient voice, a voice that seemed like home..
Come to the light, the voice said,
In the dark you are, thus you despair,
A small ray of light appeared,
Light, bright and mesmerising,
Warmth and joy unlike any other,
A distant memory, long forgotten,
This is home, this is true, my heart said..
Alas! I have accumulated so much dirt,
Dirt that blocks this light from me,
Thoughts and habits, familiar from the dark,
So comfortable, so difficult to let go,
Though it’s clear what to do, so hard it is to let go,
Slowly the ray grows, little by little,
The more it grows, the more impatient I become,
The more oppressive the darkness seems,
The more I yearn to be bathed in the light,
The light of joy, the light of truth,
Ah, remove this darkness, once and for all,
Let me be at one with the light!
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