Poem · January 1, 2014
First Noble Truth
Now I’m oldand curiously,I feel deeply accommodatedwith life andwith the world.Yet when I was youngI was deeply troubled –with the world around me,and the calamity of lifewithin my family.More troubled than those around me.More troubled than I had beenexpecting orprepared for.A whole era that wasengaged with being troubled.Fortunately unfortunately,to accommodate the worldand the truth of suffering,that was the right amountto have been troubled.
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