Sonnet
https://www.mecaforpeace.org/close-to-home-gaza-knows-suffering-too-well/
Suffering comes to our unguarded selves
Unbidden. Suicide slammed into my hidden
Self. The slaughter of the innocents all
Around us. Buddhism teaches some suffer
Too much, others too little. Suffering follows
Us through our lives, like a shadow. We must
Unburden our minds, seek compassion
For all those suffering souls in Gaza, Israel.
We must learn to dwell in the present moment
Not yearn for our past or future selves.
We must not run away from pain or pleasure.
If I cling to the certainty of pain I will never
Be free of suffering. I must reject the egoism
Of attachment and touch life deeply, alone.
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