Inner Eyes Poem by Arun Maji

When you close your eyes
you see beauty of darkness.
But if you see darkness with eyes open,
darkness terrifies you.

Beauty is there everywhere-
even in ugliest of things,
darkest of minds.


Some beauties hide themselves deep,
so deep, human eyes can never reach there.
You have to awaken your inner eyes
to see their hidden beauty.

when you close your outer eyes,
and peacefully, knock doors of inner eyes,
your inner eyes wake up.

To be aware,
is to awaken your inner eyes.
As your inner eyes wake up,
you start seeing things
far beyond space and time.

© Arun Maji
Painting: Rassouli