Metaphysical Poem

SONNET OF CONTRADICTIONS

A Christian went to the Dalai Lama

To share and dare to find a scrap of hate

He stayed a week, a month, year after year

Comparing greed, history, the State ...

A trinity of thanks, glory, prayer

Takes one to an empty room that is me:

"I am nothing; I am everything here,"

Dive into contradictions; eyes shut, See!

"I love No thing, butevery living being."

We eat our cynicism and have it too

I dwell on saints, passion, seen and unseen

"Forgive China; we share much and land too!"

Truth: "We connect, depend on one Other;

I share joys and dirt on Earthly Mother."

(c)AnD07092007

Alternate rhyming couplet to end the sonnet above:

Seek your bliss: "I go nowhere; everywhere ...

We leave earth but in fire, water, ether...."