In Every Step the Universe is Born – Sonnet Twenty-Eight

In every step the universe is born,
Yet every next brings everything’s destroy.
The grief of every fleeting moment worn
Is like a dream that every grief employs.

The mind contains the all of every’ shown,
Through every place and every time to NOW
And every sense that we have ever known,
Has only in our minds found its endow.

As Buddha found, in sufferings’ dismay,
That only “self” claims sufferings’ enthrall,
So “self” disowned brings sufferings’ allay,
So “no self” is a path that frees us all.

“No self, no suffering:” the dharma seems
To bring “know self, know suffering’s” redeem.