Eternity
A thought
Eternity Imagine you are inside the shoe closet Locked away for eternity While the whole world is outside Life and love and liberty There’s only a thin space on the bottom of the door that you can use to get out What would you do to get out? Perhaps you can do some yoga To help you thin down Some fasting would also be welcome if it will enhance the speed of thinning Some meditation would also help To keep the mind from collapsing to anxiety And then what else Perhaps some daily prayer to God to help you get out from there somehow Perhaps these are your only choices available that you can see Or perhaps you can push the door open Or even break it with all your strength But imagine there’s somebody outside the door who has the key and can open it for you instead What would you do if they ask you to do x y a in order to be allowed outside Would you tell them— “This is my life This is how I want to live And this is how I shall live” Or would you oblige And do everything you can As quickly as you can So that you can experience freedom And life Perhaps even love Eternity is that life outside that door God is standing right there with the key in his hand He’s been waiting eternally for you patiently Are you ready to be let out? Eternity is also waiting patiently for you Or perhaps it’s a bustling marketplace full of activity and life with people going in and out everyday Where would you like to be? Think about this Peace ✌🏽
This reflection feels like a parable of confinement, where a locked closet becomes the soul’s trial.
The thin space beneath the door is hope itself, a fragile passage toward freedom and light.
Yoga, fasting, meditation, and prayer are imagined as ways to endure, to keep despair at bay.
Yet the poem humanises struggle by asking whether strength alone can break the barrier of fear.
The presence of someone outside with the key transforms the metaphor into dialogue with God.
It asks whether freedom is earned through obedience or claimed through authenticity of self.
The closet becomes a mirror of our choices, while eternity waits patiently beyond the door.
God’s key is not force but invitation, a question of readiness to step into life’s fullness.
The poem humanises eternity as both sanctuary and marketplace, a space of belonging and choice.
Ultimately, Eternity whispers that liberation is not escape but acceptance stepping beyond fear into love.