Your heart
  is the home
  of your religion
  nowhere else-
  it's the sacred region
  where sanctity
  and prayer bloom
  in its every chamber
  and room-

  here where silence and worship reign
  not a single harsh voice is heard
  only you and the Ultimate
  are in intimate conversation

  time and self melt away
  all that is,  is pure transcendence

Let not your hope
   be placed on a tight rope:
    the holding would be precarious
    and the outcome might be deleterious

I
  you
  other people--

  in total
  this makes
  the human triangle

Never under-estimate
the power of negative thinking:
it's rational , practical and realistic
and sets a person in preparing
for an adverse downturn
armed with some well-prepared solution-
such a mindset is eminently admirable
and enhances the person's chance of winning

while pipe-dreams dominate positive thinking
with its slogan:  '  You're born to be a victor'
such is will o'-the-wisp -- the worst error!

Never ignore the strength of negative thinking
it will bring positive thinking to its kneeling!

Change-
an ambivalent word
where will it lead?

Terra incognita
a country
alien and strange

would there be treasure
or a quagmire ?

Would it be icy cold
at the Arctic Pole
or the hottest heat ever?

Did you choose
or was it upon you imposed?

Now,  caught in this whirlpool
there's no turning back
to the utmost you are tested-

would you be victorious
or succumb to failure?

Who would admit
part of their life
is lived in myth?

The logs have burnt out
    outside the winter winds howl
    couple in deep thought