'Choose to love yourself '

Were the words of the shaman 

As he basked in the glow of sunrise 

The zen monkey and the lotus flower 

By his side

 

5 nights ago when he found her

She was close to death 

Drowning in the silent waters

Of a lifetime of tears

In that between never

And forever place 

One lost soul

Searching out her 

Puppet master 

 

In the great circle of existence 

She had been it all 

From the mother 

To the other wife

A sleepwalker 

In the game of life

'Calm the mind 

and the body will 

Follow ' whispered the shaman 

Meet me at sunset