Shame on you Shakyamuni for setting
the precedent
of leaving home.
Did you think it was not there —
in your wife’s lovely face
in your baby’s laughter?
Did you think you had to go elsewhere
to find it?
The Layman’s Lament, by Judyth Collin
From What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, Ed. by Gary Gach
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