The Invisible Curtains

You live in a dark environment to start with

When you're ready

You started clear as a newly tinted window

You were exposed to things you have not seen before in the past

You were learning as you age

You started to get hold of particular scenes of life

Your parents have been putting up the blinds for you

Depending on their social backgrounds

For the things they assumed they weren't ready to see at your age

For the things they thought were heartbreaking for your vision

For the things they wished they have not seen in the past

But sometimes curiosity is a strong will power

To unfold the things you assumed you were ready to see at your age

To uncover the things you thought weren't all that heartbreaking for your vision

To find out the things your parents wished they have not seen in the past

But in the end

Curiosity became the blamer for most of your undesired visions

But with that

A growth is experienced

Adulthood is gradually achieved

Although deep down inside

We as adults would have tamed our curious inner child

Sometimes

with the hardship and complexity of adulthood

you would have wished that

You've never been curious at all

As we return home after a challenging day

All we yearn for

Is to shut the curtains

To our spaces

Externally and internally

And enter the world

where consciousness state is minimal

2013.1.29

Hoi-Mun Tang