Light outside the tunnel

Mumbai-Bangalore Highway, Aug 2014

I have a long way to go,
but I see light outside the tunnel.
I walk and I run and seem to reach it,
it keeps going on leading me to the end.
As I see the lights inside and then
the light outside the tunnel,
I keep breathing and reaching and seizing,
my heart starts throbbing and my lungs swelling.
As I reach for it, with my dreams at stake
and my memories screaming,
I realise the truth of existing
and the fiction of believing,
that this step of mine, outside the tunnel
will be the end of the screaming, the throbbing and dreaming,
it will be the end of my running and my reaching,
But I see light, bright light, outside the tunnel...