In the eerily darkness of the night,
I heard a familiar voice whisper in fright. With my eyes wide open and heart throbbing, I opened the door and walked outward groping. My expectation was brutally chopped, When I saw no one, my heart nearly dropped. I screamed out her name, Too loud in the open space with pain. For a second, I lost my mind; Both my sight and mind turned blind. My thoughts juggled between a dream and reality, Drowned in the vastness of rarety devoid of clarity. I held my breath for sometime and carefully listened, But nothing appeared as envisioned. The silence only raised my eyebrows And let suspicion grow. Before I walked back to my place, I tried to understand myself and embrace. I could neither blame the night for such cruelty Nor tolerate the pain in totality. The mysterious whisper disappeared into the darkness; Abondoning my mind in starkness. There is so many I ought to believe, But I realized that not everything is to be believed. ~Yeshi NidupPhuentsholing, Bhutan