AN AWKWARD TRUTH

Buddhists advise
To Invest our Lives
In the Buzz
Of Being.

The Body
A mere fleshy Carapace
We carry around
For the duration.   

At the End, they say
The Truth is Revealed:
There is no center
Only the Vastness of Presence.

Our Solitary
Lives spent suspended
In a Reality
We barely knew.

Too late, we confront
An awkward truth
That all earthly effort
Was in Vain.

Still, a life lived
Has Value.
It is the grain of sand
Around which sentience gathers.

And in its multitudes
Is Formed
The Essence
Of our Abounding Universe.