Adopted Point Of View

Can’t justify or judge the actions of Buddha;    
As he sat beneath the Bodhi Tree,    
He knew in his Heart the import of ‘Being’-    
‘Alive and Free’.    
Looking for a larger purpose    
Than raising a family,    
He abandoned his life and that of others    
In search of True Identity , Within –    
Where lies all potentiality .    
   
At the point when he sat ,    
Must have known he’d attract Antipathy    
At his seeming lack of Reciprocity .    
Yet t'was only his Loved Ones    
That felt the deserted isolation ,    
Trapped by pre-conditioned Affiliations    
And expectations –    
Without much inclination for    
reflection or Meditation ,    
On Humanities,      
or their Own destination –    
A constant source of Mans frustrations    
As he dwells in Earthly Facinations    
blithely seen as Reality.    
   
the only abandonment  that Man should feel    
are his consequences for    
ignoring the Divine Ideal -    
in favour of a hampster wheel ...    
which nowadays spins at lightning pace    
discombobulating the Human Race.    
   
The analogy between the wheel and the tree    
Presents a distinct possibility –    
   
Can’t sit under a tree that’s on the wheel -    
   
Can run on the wheel that’s under a tree.