I've lost everything


naked in the eternal instant


empty of all I thought I had

or was or would ever be


the pain is outrageous

the misery non-stop


the actual Reality

reducing me to what I truly am


and it's not the fulfillment

of some imagined destiny


it's not the vainglory

of our kowtowing to some idol


it's the relinquishing of the ego and the letting out

of every bodhisattva hidden therein



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