The Closed Room

He had been preparing for days in a closed room.
In the beginning, he didn’t know where the journey would lead
whether he had started walking without thinking,
or if someone had pushed him.
Still, he took full responsibility for it.

Like every journey before, this one wasn’t easy,
yet there was an unusual joy in it
as if, inside that closed room,
he was somehow connected to the whole world.
Gradually, he began to stretch the limits of that room.
He was searching for something within himself,
trying to understand the feeling of coming closer to his own being.

One day, he went so far
that he was beyond the reach of the outside world.
The closed room was no longer closed
it had become a key to connecting with himself.

For some time, he thought
this key only worked on the lock of that closed room.
But one day, curiosity awoke
he tried using the key outside,
and to his surprise,
it worked there too.

One day, he went so far
that he was beyond the reach of the outside world.