Home

I close my eyes and open them again; still, I see only darkness. Is there any hope to be found in this place? I know not where I am, nor where I can be led from here, but blindly I wander – brushing the extremities of my being against the bordering walls of my surroundings. I thrash and throw myself against the rocky edges, desperate for my condition to change. My body is weakened with each flailing attempt to escape, as my barrier fragments, and my body crumbles, filling my space with treacherous spikes; transpierced by my own struggling and stumbling. Hopelessly I spiral deeper into the meaningless void of my existence. Chaos reigns in the abyss that I have made my home.

"HAVE MERCY" – I cry out from the grave of my soul.

Suddenly, a spark appears in the distant sky. I thought I was enclosed within the confines of concrete walls, yet a spark appears from beyond any point that I had reached before; both emerging in the distance and approaching with imminence. The ocean of darkness surrenders its own existence in the presence of the life-giving light. Effortlessly expanding through space, my cave is illuminated by the brightening light, without a single crevice being allowed to remain in the shadows.

By what power could this be? Surely not by my own command has this divine light found a place to dwell in my grimly home. I reach out with all of my being toward this light, yet I remain motionless, as the light travels down to my lowly state and embraces me in a warm glow. My eyes overflow as I'm subdued by the sensation of fire in my soul. I see clearly for the first time as I wipe the blurring waters from my eyes, only for them to swell up again with fresh vigor. After some moments pass, the tears begin to lessen in their flow, and the forms around me become visible for the first time. The archaic barriers that surrounded me weren't the cage that I thought they were, but rather a wonderful canvas of art. I find myself encompassed with depictions of glyphs and symbols as I explore the world that I imagined as a merciless enclosure, which once caused me to feel like a ghost in a machine. Staring at the icons and images around me, I am determined to repair the damage that I once inflicted upon my enchanting home.

The cave of my heart has been opened to infinity. Hope floods into me, giving rise to a new dream. Perhaps, someone else can be found with whom we can share the golden key...