Never Mind Nirvana
An aching earthquake chasm has more weight
Than filled perfection ever gains. The death
Of Christ impaled is useful to berate
The evils in the world much more than breath
Of Buddha, mystic in his musings, thought
Beneath a Bodhi tree, his rapture in
His meditation. Whether insight ought
To master heavy weapons fighting sin,
It doesn’t quite. The agony of Christ
Is heftier though it is no more dense
Than Budda’s vision. Pureness sacrificed
Splays out more forcefully, far more intense.
..Besides, this Jesus waited in his tomb
….And rose again. That act is Buddha’s doom.