Do you love being alone best.
Or spending time with
all the vices spent
and spent again?
For me, my soul has
drunk up too much woe.
Too much fading of love,
friendship and opportunity.
So, I will not live a life forlorn.
Or stop the self from advancing.
I will cherish the gray streets
and the bamboo sprouts, equally.
Alone, or not…..
And always with simplicity
and plainness.
I will practice a calming
of the heart, and an
emptiness of form.