Buddha before enlightenment starved bony looking in the moment for a way out
the joy and pain the universal law at the center in the chaos in and around him
knowing we all wait under a spreading tree
the return of turtles setting eggs in sand
salmon roiling upriver to spawn
sea lions fleeing the orca
And human life – cirriped on the fin of a whale
ephemeral song in the ocean of space-time
Glint on a globe severed head on sand bright knife blood on a terrorist’s hand– we know not when but live for one instant, Enlightenment–
Love pales in comparison under a bodhi tree.
