Submissions by JoshuaLWhite

I

The umbrella of suffering
Covers this world
Only those who can become the rain
Will be freed.


II

If words are spoken, but no truth spoken
Then what use is there in words?

What is faith without truth?

III

Fearing Suffering
Fearing death
Feeling lost in a pit of delusion,
I slowly waste my days.

IV

Death's inevitable arrival
At any given moment
Compells the mind to fear
But fear is not the remedy

V

Your life is not complete until you die

A state of bliss formed through the combined perceptions of smell, taste and thought
Nothing but lost souls in the warm, vast landscape of the night
Warming rays from a lonesome bedside lamp
Illuminating faces in the dark -
Broken hearts, open minds

Sun swallowed by the horizon -
Taking refuge in a warm lit room,
Thoughts floating with the joyful company of fellow citizens of the night -

Light, grey smoke slowly gliding upon the air,
Hanging silently in a state of equilibrium‎,
before disappearing, into the beyond, through the...