HOW I BURNT MY HOUSE

PART 1 : DAMSEL IN DARKNES :

Many a years ago, I built my House with a Damsel fair, illuminating it with Lights and Lamps everywhere.

One day many a full-moon ago, while I was playing around, with no seriousness, I knocked a Lamp at a corner of my house. It fell, and got some cracks and dents. I tried to fix it to my best, but my dismayed Damsel can only do is stare at the dents and the cracks of the broken Lamp. And thus she refused to light it.And she got absorbed in the darkness of that dark corner.

So for many a day, in that dark corner of my House, the Damsel of my House dwells. And in that Darkness, all sorts of beasts and monsters started creeping out of her mind, to her world of darkness - those gnawing, carnal, ruthless, cannibal and hideous beasts dancing around her. Making her a Distressed Damsel in Darkness.

Any attempt to show her the positive bright world bore no fruit. And every imperfection, got magnified in my Damsels mind. Thus, I got afraid to show my truest self to her, lest she see only the imperfections magnified in my self and soul.

PART 2 : THE BLINDING LIGHT

And for my Damsel in the Dark, my imperfections - real or imagined - got amplified.

And as I  walked down a path  I met a Glow that lighted the very inner core of my soul. And thus in that Glow i found warmth. It changed me - the Glow's warmth and shine making my soul stronger and merrier, but I decided not to get entangled with the Glow, lest my Damsel may get lonely and  all alone with only the monsters in her head.

My Damsel in the Dark sensed changes in me, and being in dark accompanied by beasts in her head, she imagined the worst. She imagined I have immersed myself in the Glow, I have got intoxicated by drinking from a Fountain of Pleasure, and I may leave the house for another Damsel. And the beasts and monsters in her head crawled from there to space between me and her, dancing and mocking. She started to get visions of me in every act of badness, so much so that she got agitated and want to leave me.

So I decided, it must not be darkness that shall destroy us. Darkness must perish.

Thus, I took a leap of faith.

I lighted a candle to drive away the darkness around my Damsel, knowing very well that same light will reveal whatever imperfectness within myself. But, light is the only true way forward, and darkness shall perish. I believed the Light will remove any doubts of me my Damsel has had, as she comes out the darkness around her and away from the monsters in her head.

So I lighted the Candle.But her eyes are so accustomed to being in the dark, the Light momentary blinded my Damsel and made her mad. And the beasts around her played havoc. She only saw was the imperfect self of me, and in the rage twisted and spinned the candle and its Light, thus making it fall and catch fire on my house. Thus this is how my house got burnt.

And now I arise like Phoenix from the Ashes, strong and silent. And my Damsel, I am not sure the fire changed her for good or bad. In her is imprinted, the imperfectness of me and still the beasts and monsters hide in a dark corner of her mind. Yet, she is getting accustomed to the light... and we shall see what the days yet to come will bring forth. We shall see whether we can build the house that got burnt.

And though i never may see the Glow i met down the path, the warmth of her will be in my heart. And my Damsel knows it, for now we are in the Light.