The 4 steps..

I want to walk these four steps, 

be bold,

dare to smell freedom

and see a new world. 

It's just four steps

why does it seem intimidating? 

I am nervous,
I don't intend to give in. 

These four steps 

are challenging me today,
I have to be focussed,
not let my mind run astray.

At the end of the four steps, 

there is no more pain,

no more heartbreaks 

and no loss or gain. 

It's just merging 

with nature again, 

to be back 

where I began.

My mind runs a zillion simulations

of my parallel existence,

I am just four steps away, 

I have to take a chance. 

Maybe I've jumped off the edge

beyond these four steps, 

in some parallel universe... 

saw what's beyond it,  

experienced eternal bliss. 

Or maybe it's in this universe 

I have to walk these four steps... 

I think no more,

I go one, two, three, four....

(c) Archana Bora