EVERYTHING

EVERYTHING

Everything is inside you,

When sympathy, service, and compassion is true,

Everything is inside everything,

As the restless, aimless, and erring being,

Deep inside the Ocean,

There lies a bed of Sand and terrain,

Deep down the Desert,

The Water flows through the hidden part,

Dig deep; Sink and seek,

There is a root of each mountain peak,

Which burns into memory, bursts into view,

Where the old self meets the new,

Now throw everything away,

Even your name in the enforced silence of the way,

Take a handful of heartbeats now,

Now continue the journey anyhow,

Of all the things I’ve earned,

Of all the lessons I’ve learned,

It’s toughest to learn to let go,

It’s toughest to teach the lessons you know,

Everything is inside you; pain and pleasure,

Even the unheeded beauties and unheroic measure,

Where body disguises the Mind,

And leaves the Soul behind,

I walk through the Shadows,

And I am very sorry to say,

I’m but a shadow,

Whose light is far away.


                                                                             -Kishor Jangda