electromagnetic radiation - Why do light disappears the moment we switch off the source (inside the wooden box)?

I am failing to explain why light won't remain inside the wooden box in the following situation. I considered a wooden box closed from all the sides, with a bulb inside it. If we switch on the bulb, light will be emitted from the bulb inside the box, if we switch off the bulb, I assumed the light to disappear, which I practically assume to be true. If I am wrong here, please explain. So, practically I assumed light to disappear if we switch off the bulb, after being switched on for a while. I got a question here, why light has to disappear the moment we switch off the bulb?

Thinking about the above situation, I considered the case of bullet being fired into the wooden face from the inside of the same box. No doubt, bullet smashes the wooden face into pieces and comes out. Here bullet has high speed and even has mass, so that, it disappears out of the wooden box. I considered the photons now, I thought photons have high speed much greater than bullet, but they have very less mass (I am not sure with rest or relativistic), so I thought that, photons should remain into the wooden box after colliding the wooden face. If they would had, I thought that there should have been light inside the box even after the bulb was switched off, but it is not. Is it that photons are piercing into the voids between the atoms with high speed to get out of wooden box?

If we say photons are getting out of the wooden box piercing into the voids, why won't it be in total internal reflection phenomenon. If we assume light to be incident at the interface from the denser medium to the rarer medium, at an angle greater than critical angle, photons should even then pierce into the voids. But, my teacher has taught me that, in total internal reflection there would be no refraction. By this even my assumption of photon getting out of the box from the voids also falls down. As radiation is a form of energy, it can't be lost with out being utilised or else it can't be lost without getting emitted out of the box so as to avoid violation of conservation of energy. Is here, the light absorbed inside the box by the medium? I don't know whether I have misunderstood here or whether we could explain from wave nature of light, so as to why light disappears from the box?