How Long Must I Wait
“Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.”
From the Four Great Bodhisattva Vow
You would think we’d grow tired of it:
this need to murder
in the desert
and then lament
those who have died.
Yet, when faced with
the twisted sinews
of the mind, frayed
and torn by so many years of –
is it neglect? misuse?
the wrong path taken again and again?
whatever it is,
I run straight to the temple
looking for answers,
to the question
of my suffering
as if that were the issue,
the thing that is
at stake,
How long must I wait?
Even the question
being asked,
keeps taking me further
from the truth.
We spend so much time waiting on the somedays...don't we Nathan? I lament with you as well...
ReplyDeleteall paths being wrong and waiting the most illusory path of all, a wishing well of time and place and being, in patience holding and letting go , letting time flow without demand or grasp, without expectation but with joy.... enjoyed this poem - thank you!
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