The Wise, They Laugh

[Guest]

The Wise, They Laugh

Forever the wheel creaks,
Time turns and never stops.
We shrivel and die and are reborn again,
Always to see the sun rise and set,
To be diseased and grow old,
Until we die again.

Cities burn and men are slaughtered,
Cruelty reigns and injustice prevails.
What seems good at once is bad at another.
The world seems covered in darkness.

The gods laugh at us, some say.
But I know they cry.
They overflow with love and cannot act,
For we are our own masters,
Our karma is our own.

So destroy the wheel and end this all!
Leave this place and never return,
Cast off this body and retreat into peace.
...but without the body,
There is no feeling, no thought, no life:
There is nothing.

Nothingness is darker than darkness,
Nothingness is worse than the pain of life.

Some say the wise despair for the world,
To see the darkness eternal.
But I know they laugh to see us wander,
When all we must do is open our eyes.

There is no light above or below,
Only the light within each other.

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scary kinda

[0bliiVioN]

Holy shit, Kirby.....wow.

[Guest]

I made it up in like five minutes.

[WildFire]

Its really good. i've been making a poem with a similar body to that.