Be Here Now

What is here?
What is now?
Suffering is 
Here
Now. 
Pain is
Here 
Now. 
Why do I have to
Be Here Now? 
I want to escape. 
I want to 
Tear off this 
Meatsuit 
And be free of it. 
But Ram Dass said
I have to
Sit with 
The pain. 
Sit with
The suffering. 
And 
Be 
Here
Now.
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