Confined - In a Cell

It’s so big, so very big...

Massive and much more

But I see it as merely inches in size

Though I absorb its heat and light.

My eyes cannot gauge the size of the sun

And I must learn of it through science

Which tells me what it is, how big

And the heat that emanates out of its core.

My ears can hear just a tiny range

Of sounds and frequencies that are there

And that which I do is limited some more

By the soundless noise that my mind grows.

My mind sees as massive those things

That are really not that big

Like what someone did to me one time

Or said in a moment of his disharmony.

How much can I trust my senses

And how much must I trust my mind -

Yes, they are useful tools I can use

But they’re fallible in a million ways.

It’s better I sit in silence and watch

How my senses and mind create a cell

Where the prisoner held in solitary confinement

Is me, my being in its self-made hell.

- rajyogi