--- title: Land of Sunshine date: 2008-09-08T16:51:30Z modified: 2008-09-09T15:49:47Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/land-of-sunshine/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 432 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/kiloranbay-juraview-thumb.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-09-09T15:49:47Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![land of sunshine](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/kiloranbay-juraview-thumb.jpg "kiloranbay-juraview-thumb.jpg") the day is almost over everything I wanted to do, everything I wanted to say, has been said and done; as I make my way back to the den, before the darkness closed in, I start to think and wonder, why should I barricade myself again; I reach down into my soul and grab for the real me hidden beneath this skeleton of what the world has molded me into! sitting with my old friend [the darkness](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md), with [silence](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/breaking-the-silence.md) all around for company, the thoughts and [feelings](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/what-are-these-feelings.md) that swam inside, come into view; said to be mine, yet I understand nothing of the myriad of [emotions](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/prisoner-emotions.md), that have a [mind](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/all-in-the-mind.md) of its own! as I looked at the horizon, seeking [salvation](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/silver-salvation.md) and release from the [beast that lived within](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-beast-within.md), I was at a loss what to do! as the sweet smell of salt, carried by the breeze, hit my senses, I thought for a minute, and gave in to [my heart’s desire](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/my-hearts-desire.md)! in the garden of life, I forgot to enjoy the beauty, and got stuck in a rat hole, that slowly consumed me day after day; as I got up to leave for the day, the boundaries that once defined me disappeared as my heart leads me adrift on a [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/its-just-like-a-dream.md) to a land of sunshine; – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – — – – – – image from Google