Postmodern Buddha

It’s evolution and for sure we’ve come some automatic way since Darwin marvelled at volcanoes in Galapagos and still We proudly fight all wars to settle scores and greedy quest Revolution shouts the disobedient anti Wall Street warrior Mask with smiles covering riled fury on their faces Sporting Marx or Che Guevara on exclusive shirts God Almighty nails on cross and turning tables at insipid marble temples Self-righteous crusades with words and swords Belligerent faith to claim which idol is the best Money shares and gold give rise to power and sophisticated domination Can’t eat bills and coins when the earth won’t breathe As plastic suffocates the ocean credit cards are futile Sex Drugs and heavy metal music self-pleasing wasted orgies Mere distractions with perforated ear drums Orgasmic heroes snorting while they copulate Two concepts hold less anger and can free the mind and soul A meditating Buddha overcoming suffering And post-modern disconnected fragmentation Siddhartha tries to find the eightfold middle way in meditation Between ascetic hunger bar a fig or two and Flatulent opulence in futile search for satisfaction Fleeting impermanence hovering in levitation Love compassion kindness not to hurt a sentient being Sharing caring in mindfulness modesty forgiveness and humility This seems farfetched for so called civilized rational conclusions When everything is dissolute broken torn to fragments Shards of rigid polar opposites contradicting dichotomies Rip apart with confusion in a world we cannot understand Feel disconnected powerless surrendering to deepest schism The shibboleth’s illusion that we can only heal when everything is fixed And yet once we accept the things we cannot change concentrate On what is possible seek wisdom to know the difference Find solace in some mediocre inevitabilities of life Put a loin cloth on where fig leaves cannot cover And shoulder all those splintered putrefactions The Buddha in all of us connects with the freedom of unresolved disintegration 27th May 2019