Slowing down the wild and anxious horses that race against the time,
Taking a deep breath and calming the untamed mind,
I dipped my senses into the essence of rejuvenation 
And started the journey to find my lost self throughout this vacation.

I brought down the shutters to eliminate the noise and spare me the formalities,
Bringing myself to basics and bare necessities,
It was hard to avoid the lure of friendly distractions at first,
As I welcomed the stillness, the depth and the silence in order to come to a grinding halt.

As the inflows subdued and finally stopped, it was time to unclutter all that’s in the heart, the mind and the soul,
I looked at the overwhelming heap of all that I had gathered little by little, and started to wonder where the cleansing must begun, 
I carefully put out everything in the Sun to dry – the good, the bad and the ugly, and looked at it all over again,
It was a heap of the unexpressed, the unfelt, the silent whispers, the attachments, the wins, the losses, the celebrated and the unknowns,

I started to clean every corner of my soul and wondered how it all gathered through the spectrum of time,
Feeling light and liberated, I put off the burden on the side and stopped the wheel of time to ponder on what I can pack for the future, 
The voices from within are precious yet shrill, they certainly can’t find their way up through the daily drill,
As I peeled through the layers of time, introspecting the interplay of an organisation within.

I passed through the inner sanctum on a journey full of discoveries and unparalleled adventures,
I climbed over the mountains and fell through several cliffs into the deep crevices only to find some answers,
Within those crevices I found a few lost treasures – the freshness in my thoughts like the first rains, a spring in the feet of my spirits like a child’s first step and the lightness in my wings to fly over the mountains of skepticism,
Taking a deep breath, moving through the motions, enjoying one moment at a time, I slowly brought together what is inside and outside, in harmony and in peace.

I made some place for my new found treasures, and bring them together with the good that exists,
I dreamt of the eternal vastness of what is yet left to explore within the realms of my existence,
And I vowed to never to lose my touch with what I saw, how I felt and where I belong, 
and I vow to to be in touch with where I belong. 

… and I vow to remain where I belong.