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Fetters

Yeshodhara hesitated.
The enlightened one levitates along the breeze,
It is a question of discretion, not fleece.
Cut out the fluff.  Sweetie, I want thee!
Lust is liquidated in his smile, only peace
Yeshodhara wants him.  She cannot hawk her love.
King Sudhodana is reconciled. Sidhartha is faded.
His recluse son no longer belongs to him.
Budha he is, the enlightened.
"Come reverend sire, at peace in my palace"
The wisdom smiled and blessed all.
His first birth and his son Rahul
All in the fog of blissful amnesia.
It has been a slice. 
Now the misty memory evaporated.

The smile is graceful.
Yeshodhara queued up among many.
See that countenance of love!
Tremor.  Statue like she stands.
Your erstwhile wife!  Wailing wave.
The warbling song of her heart wails.

She falls at the feet of sanctity.
The sacred one shudders awhile.
Where is his hard earned wisdom? Come, come!
Sudden is the revival.

SHANTI.  The vibration ends.
Now Yeshodhara is not enlightened.
Uneasy winds shake her heart.
She craves for one embrace, one kiss!
But freedom is in chains.  So SHANTI!
The freedomof speech too is in chains.
Om Shanti!
— U K Atiyodi, Mar 16, 2010

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weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 2 months ago

I read this many times, Mr.

I read this many times, Mr. Atiyodi and I just don't understand it.Did Sidhartha rebuff his wife's sexual advances? Did she go to other men? Is this Buddha's human failing? Is sex one of the desires that Bhuddism abrogates? No man should explain his poem, and I don't expect you to, but this one confused me. Cheers, Jess, “The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.” Emma Goldman