The Palace

There were many others with their heads held down that night, all looking and wondering who this new member of their elite club could possibly be. You see no one ends up in this place without and escort and a touch of madness emanating from their face.

And though there is an endless pit of darkness deep inside us all most are to terrified to look, face or own it. But for the less fortunate it appears everywhere in their lives, even as they wonder the halls day and night mumbling and trapped in the karma of their past actions.

Was I one of the blessed ones who could not hide it, I must have been for I was there with them. My love for the human condition grew daily as I wondered the halls with these lost souls and as time went on I could not help but pray with compassion for them all.

Yes, some palaces are built of gold and splendor but this one was constructed from the lost minds of loneliness and isolation that just seemed to send them deeper into the darkness.

The day I walked a free man from this magnificent spiritual training ground sadness came over me as I knew I was going to miss them all.

Heaven and hell has no location.