Poetry

IAM NOT CONTENT


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Lao Tzu, legendary Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism wrote:

Be content with what you have

rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking

the whole world belongs to you.


I AM NOT CONTENT

with what I have.

I do not rejoice

in the way things are.


Never!


Not until I am buried

with all my stuff


my swords and shields

and my slings and arrows

of outrageous fortune.


Bury me

with my prejudices and ego

with my stress and anger

with my desires for revenge

with my unkind words

with my thoughtlessness.


Bury me

with my sloth and gluttony.

Bury me

with my pride.


Bury me

with my lust for who

and what I cannot have

and my lust instead

for possessions

to surround me.


Bury me

most of all

with my sadness and loneliness.


But

don't forget to come back

and dig me up.


Leave all that other stuff

cover it with reinforced concrete.


Put up a sign that says:

Danger!

Radioactive!

Highly Poisonous!

Do Not Dig Here!

Do Not Disturb!


Then


I will belong to the world.

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PoetryBy Terry Mulcahy