Giving Up Everything

Giving up everything
My hungry ghost of hopefulness
.

Giving up everything
Not haunted by wanting this
.

Giving up everything
The fortune I was saving. 


Giving up everything

I mercy-killed my craving
.

Giving up everything
I've opened up my eyes for this
.

Giving up everything
See the whole magnificent emptiness
.

Gave what I want for how it is
For the stone inside and the bitterness
For the sweetness at the core of it
.

Giving up everything

The master plan the scheming
.

Giving up everything
My cursed search for meaning.


Giving up everything
The compass and the map I was reading

.

The hinterlands I'm leaving

I'm finally leaving behind
.

Giving up everything
The big to-do the hullabaloo
The tug-of-war for some twisted truth
For the everlasting ache of it

No longer slave not chained to it
No gate no guard no keeper
No guru master teacher

.

See the slow-receding faces
Dissolve to black no traces.