The Enchanted Prison

: In this world, you are the one I trust with my eyes closed. Though the orchids we tended so carefully have withered into lifelessness, our love still lives on; although my inner sight tells me you could never truly love me. Breaking through the web of silence with irrepressible force, I have only managed to touch your eyes with my limitations; I could do nothing more than this, though I would have, had it been possible!

You know, keeping you this close to my heart at this moment is deeply torturous for me; yet still I search for refuge on your lips. The afterglow of this slender, strange feeling is extraordinary—a spell whose gaze I never wished to escape.

: You've learned to speak with such profound emotion! This is exactly what I wanted. Do you know, I have always seen only myself reflected throughout your inner being.

: Of course I know. This cursed graveyard you see here, the frenzied digging of insects through these dead souls, amid this crowd of wounds—what do you see?

: Behind the stillness where tumult has ceased, their wailing gathered in hidden rage. I shuddered suddenly when I heard them calling for you!

: You hear it! They want to return again to the self-immolation of love! Tell me, Mrinmoy, doesn't it ever seem to you that this manner of expressing my love is terribly ghostly? Why do I call you to this deserted path every day? The deeper the path becomes, the more your restlessness multiplies manifold. It is precisely then that my abandoned heart becomes desperate to feel the touch of peace.

Dear Mrinmoy, even as you are part of my soul, you manage to keep yourself removed a hundred million light-years away from me. But when we walk this path together, only then is there not the slightest distance between us, and purification of the soul is witnessed. The moment I touch your hand, every path of escape becomes closed.

: Can you see that flash of light on the wings of the free bird in the distance?

: I cannot see anything with my eyes, Mrinmoy! This shouldn't be happening!