Close Your Eyes

You said – ‘Close your eyes’

I did just that.

Then you said – ‘Cover them tightly with your palms’

I did just that but, my eyes hurt,

I didn’t tell her about my hurt.

How could I sound my inquisitiveness?

How could I ever stop seeing her?

Did she compel me to close my eyes!

The feared Darkness is not only in my eyes,

It has covered me as a black shroud does,

I do not remember anything,

I even forgot to uncover my eyes, remove my palms,

I did not go to sleep because she occupied my mind.

And as suddenly she ceased to exist,

No longer did I feel her presence in that Darkness,

There was no need to probe that Darkness to find her.

She was not some flickering flame located far away,

She is within me.

I shall meet her when I breathe in next.