Wednesday, May 1, 2019

A life of whim

A life of whim                                                                                            

This poetry is not mine
but I sign my name to it.

What is my name
but a metaphor for the unnamable?

I don’t know who I am or even if I exist.
This is the poetry of my attributes,

my sanskaras - not me, not mine.
A procession of suns and moons –

rise and fall, rise and fall. 
Breathes my chest –

rise and fall, rise and fall.
Torrents of thought rise and fall.

It began on a whim, said my Lord –
a bleary goal without need or desire;

a lack of requirement – unnecessary,
this plethora of suffering and failure.

O child of God, the whim of illusion
requires a life of whim.




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