“sewasdee khrab”
hello
Thai Diary
I am sure you will be thrilled to hear
this Delta Airlines Boeing 777 jet flight
the mythical bird I wish could transform ashes
into food that feeds all sentient beings
soars towards Bangkok
where it will deliver me
like the thready ping
of a Buddhist prayer bell
to the 8 petaled heart of brightness
you’ll also be pleased to know
I’ve rediscovered
just enough of my innocence
to relinquish a hideous ego
that bought and sold
more and more
to smugly train itself
to care less and less
now after flying to the opposite side
of the world
to where that wound called love
is the place the third eye
enters your body
my psyche yearns to fuse
Thai and American minds
and hearts
in the filigree astral light
of an intimate compassion
for all living beings
that exists nowhere else
in the universe
hello
Thai Diary
I am sure you will be thrilled to hear
this Delta Airlines Boeing 777 jet flight
the mythical bird I wish could transform ashes
into food that feeds all sentient beings
soars towards Bangkok
where it will deliver me
like the thready ping
of a Buddhist prayer bell
to the 8 petaled heart of brightness
you’ll also be pleased to know
I’ve rediscovered
just enough of my innocence
to relinquish a hideous ego
that bought and sold
more and more
to smugly train itself
to care less and less
now after flying to the opposite side
of the world
to where that wound called love
is the place the third eye
enters your body
my psyche yearns to fuse
Thai and American minds
and hearts
in the filigree astral light
of an intimate compassion
for all living beings
that exists nowhere else
in the universe