A BUDDHIST LITURGY
My enlightenment is this
Life makes Life a simple gift,
wraps in parable and myth
a thing not so large it
cannot fit into a single lotus seed;
not so small it couldn't bulge
and expand the cosmos,
not so near it does not shine
on numberless galaxies beyond sight
not so far its breath doesn’t
touch your ear in the quiet of night
all around and flowing within us
the heart’s blood of waking buddhas
who open their eyes laughing,
having dreamt we are glasses of water
deep in wondrous, rhythmic seas
ã 2005 Bruce Jewett
