Siddhartha on a Street Corner

A blind man sits begging for change    
living inside his head    
he has nowhere else to go    
once he knew fame and money    
and played women like violins    
but he gave it all away    
long before losing his eyes    
.    
A blind man sitting all alone    
a symphony playing in the cathedral of his mind   
the world around him cannot hear a sound    
they are too busy to listen anyway    
he especially likes the cello    
his body vibrating with sound    
looking deep inside    
a new state of being is found    
.    
A blind man sits staring at his hands    
marveling as energy pulses up and down    
smiling, people think he's mad    
but it was so much fun    
to turn his hands into pure energy    
and then back again    
.    
A blind man used to sit begging for change    
until one day he wasn't there    
people never noticed he wasn't around    
but they would always stop and listen    
to the haunting notes of a cello    
vibrating in the air