JOURNEY TOWARDS THE DOOR



JOURNEY TOWARDS THE DOOR!

The room is empty,
mute and murky,
Eerily calm,
Relentlessly cold,
Drying the cracks of his wounds.

Ears are tired of hearing the silent noise within.
Mind is reeling the thoughts of the past.
Eyes are wet and dim, imploring radiance in the dark aghast.
Neck is leveraging the fallen head,
Heart is beating like a dead.
The legs have withheld the energy, leaving the tips to shiver.
Hands are warming the junked knee caps.
Spine and shoulders are bent in submission to the grief being celebrated within.

Where’s the door, he can’t see.
Should be perhaps ten steps away, but will take him miles to reach there.
 
He’s sitting here,
on the floor,
sticky, and can’t make a move effortlessly.
Quiet and Quite grim.
.
.

But wait! He hears a latch being touched,
It’s the door somewhere being pushed.

Eyes muddle and focal on a thin flash, slowly widening,
Light penetrating the gaps,
A ray now is being formed,
coming towards the lost soul,
A portal seems to be opening...

Spine erects!
Legs release the energy,
The neck lifts the head with strength.
Eyes races down towards the door,
Ears are dying to explore,
Consciousness escapes the cage of mind and
runs away on the carpet of ray,

The warmth of light is drying the stickiness of the slope,
Feels like the broken self wants to welcome this Ray of Hope.
He wants to grab this chance to make himself prove,
but is too blue to make a move.
.
.

Who opened the door for him!
Is this some opportunity again!
Will, he be able to gather the strength enough or,
will remain smeared with pain!

Well, to cross this dark, he’ll have to embark.
He is alone.
Battered legs, shabby hands, shattered courage, and a weary brain.
It’s all he has for this campaign.

Is this enough or,
he needs anything more,
to begin his JOURNEY TOWARDS THE DOOR!.

About this poem

It’s about a broken person living in the dark trying to find light in his life, and is trying to gather courage to walk towards it.

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Written on August 30, 2022

Submitted by anantgunesh98 on August 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A BBXXX CDDEEXFC BX XABG XX HFXXH XBXAAXX IIJJ GXAK XXKK AAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,863
Words 354
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 8, 9, 2, 5, 7, 6, 4, 4, 3

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