The Journey Goes Down

I ascend my way up the mountain of erudition to find

My dog still gets fleas

My baby still cries because she does not want to eat her beans

My husband still travels to far away places

My mortgage still needs to get paid

What if I abandon all these attachments

I still have to eat

I still must find a safe place to rest

I still have to see pain in the eyes of the streets

What if I sequester myself away from touch to

Don robes of forbearance

I cannot lift off the wheel

I am still only human

I am still with myself

High atop the summit, looking for a way back down

So, what did I learn

It is faster if I jump

My Enemy, My Friend

Of hardships unnumbered

Of burns endured by lips too sick

Of death appointed by life unusual

Of loving with the intensity

Of hate

Of gentle eternal, we will never know

Of nothing ever good enough

Of a journey down in flames

Of a closer not with thee

Of vows too great to cross, and unworthy

Of spring blossoms, that fall apart

My enemy, my friend

The Perfection of Patience

Regular practice

Embrace difference

Not preference

No Happy Ending

Do not have any expectation

May I be kind?

 

You have been too austere

I have been too extreme

We have been to each other

A lesson

So, pay attention

 

Reveille when I wake

Broke a wide opened heart

Revel when I sleep

Fixed a moment of compassion

The ultimate mission

 

Smile!

A fortunate blessing

Is no happy ending

 

Into The Daemon’s Mouth

Come to me

No more unworthy

Beyond right and wrong

Overcome self-deception

Come to me

I just dreamt you

How I will tempt you

To

Come to me

I cannot resist you

I must insist you

Come to me

As we edge toward open ground

Have no expectations

Just

Come to me

One Daemon

Two Daemon

Three

Come to me

Sharp tooth

Set me free

Happiness Without The Hangover

Start here

Begin it

Commence

But, go nowhere

Not one step forward

Not to the side

Not a retreat

To the Past

To nowhere

Stop wanting

Hate needing

Notice now

But, go nowhere

Patience practice

Evolutions take time

But, go nowhere

Be The Body

Tender

Sad

Bleeding heart

Hope, but, go nowhere

Turning inward

Blood from stone

Rejoice the ordinary path

That goes nowhere

And in that quiet

In that…

Space

Is happiness

But, do not follow

It goes nowhere

This Brief Lifetime

You are not so sweet.

I am not so bitter.

And we are never satisfied.

 

You dismiss.

I permiss.

And we are never satisfied.

 

You are not the same.

I am ever different.

And we are never satisfied.

 

You are too important.

I am too mundane.

And we are never satisfied.

 

You are more a boar.

I am a less a lass.

And we are never satisfied.

 

You will go on forever.

I will die once every day.

And we are never satisfied.

 

What are we ignoring?

What must we see plain?

We train to live as warriors.

Yet, we are never satisfied.