Die for Life

(Resurrection Song)

Leave this life
This world of pain
Sometimes you have to die
To be born again
Who will I be then?
Scared of the unknown
But it’s better than
The devil I know
Escape the maze
For two up
Two down
Place of peace
The simplicity
That is born
Out of complexity
The Buddha burning
His books
There was nothing
Left to learn
He’d returned to his self
The innocence of a child
Who’d experienced the world
And shook it off his shoulders
He smiled at all his past troubles
And wept for the roiling world
He opened his palm
Unfolding a lotus flower
Which caught on the breeze
And sailed towards heaven
And then another
And another…

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© John Horan 2020