Sunday, September 14, 2025

The Buddha and Lao Tzu

 

My only solace was

that it wasn't fatal,

but something reparative 


But I replay in loop 

the seen and the unseen

of the untoward accident

based on the decision I made


I enact variations of the 

traumatic event

based on the decisions

I could have made


Despite the Buddha telling me

pain is inevitable, 

suffering is optional


Despite Lao Tzu telling me

living in the past is depressive, 

living in the future creates anxiety


Guilt and logic keeps swaying me

on each of its sides

as I walk on the tensed life rope


What's the point, if I know and yet

don't or can't remember?


I can only write, reread, shut, and 

wish myself Godspeed.


~  20 March, 24

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