Midnight Musings - Walking Dust

I woke up...

I dont know where I was.

I started looking around me.

I was sitting near a fire on a beach.

It was night and looked like it was about to rain.

I could feel...

Escaping Embers & Crackling Fire

Humming Waves & Cricket Noise

Approaching Storm & Thundering Clouds

Fading Stars & Cool breezes

It was all pleasant & beautiful...

I stood up and started walking, with a torch.

I turned back and could see my footprints.

They were eventually erased by the waves.

I was walking towards a dark forest.

I could see monkeys restlessly shrieking,

Even in the stormy and dark night.

What could be more restless than these?

Probably my mind, because it's restless even when I`m asleep.

I found a large cave and entered it.

It started raining heavily just after that.

There were all sorts of scrambled pictures & fuzzy stories,

Carved onto the wall of that cave.

Some of those felt familiar.

Some of those were old & fading away.

I thought that the cave can only endure ones that are deeply carved.

Just like my memories that are strongly etched into my heart.

I suddenly heard a sound, I looked around.

I felt something hit my ankle.

With the help of the torch, I tried to see what it was.

It was a snake, and I realized, It bit me.

I just stood there shocked. I gradually collapsed.

But I didn't feel any pain. Instead, I felt high and I realized couldn't move.

I was completely immersed in that state.

Surprisingly I wanted it to last for some more time.

I was becoming sleepy and about to go unconscious.

In those moments I thought why didn't I do anything after I got bit.

Maybe I was stumped out by an altered state so much, I was ignorant.

Just like one sinking in desire and realizing it only at the very end.

Suddenly I felt... nothing.

It was like I was... dead.

I could not see, hear or feel anything.

Where am I? What I have become? What I was before this?

Then there was a light & I understood I was that light.

In that light I realized. I was previously just a Walking Dust.

And now I'm just dust.

And there is no need to walk again If I understood this. 

And then I really woke up... from my dream. It all was just a dream.

Was it a nightmare or a good dream? I wondered!.

And it was neither of them.

I realized It was just a glance of truth.

I'm just Walking Dust, awake or in a dream.