Tagged…:) Questions To Die For

Self tagged following Seige’s open-to-all tag let’s see what happens:)
[Layer One: On the Outside]Name: Y Lens Birth Date: 23 DecemberCurrent Status: broke…Eye Color: brownly blackHair Color: Bald (hah!), um, black? brown? brownish black?Righty or Lefty: All Righty
[Layer Two: On the Inside]Your Heritage: some apes…Your Fear: nightmare, daymare, crowd, enlightenment…Your Weakness: [...]

Water and Earth

Someone told me ninety nine percent of our brain was water. He didn’t tell me what the other part was.
Maybe earth, I assumed.

Footprints of the Blind

‘I can see! I can see!’Bluffs the man, blind,as he ran straight to a pole.‘I’m sorry,’ says he to the pole,‘I’m blind.’
Their voices,folding like waves across the tired ocean,people laugh,the echo – a dull thud –dampening his woes.
‘Where am I?’Pleads the man, blind,‘Anyone?’ asks he.Ripples of laughterhang in the air,sad, loathsome, unkind…
He feels the earthwith [...]

Between sleep and dream

‘Wake up!’ said a voice, thin and brushing away my sleep.
I smiled and waved my hand. I might have said something. But moment between sleep and dream is so poignant that we forget almost everything.
The voice faded into the recess of sleep. Sleep slithered like ether, at once soothing.
How many times did I wake from [...]

I Killed my Buddha

I realized the seed of Buddha in me – Buddha nature they said – seedling it was. I plucked it off. It died. Better kill it than let it thrive in infertile Buddha land.