Absurd wanting

What you want is not relevant.
What wants to be is what is.
The two may converge
as your sense of a separate self
is revealed as an absurdity.
To want this convergence
is the most absurd.

Another birthday to remind us

(happy birthday Champa!)

Despite your true eternal nature
there is yet a thing called time
and there even lies a beauty
in the lie that calls it mine.

In life there may be stages
where this may not be seen
but then there is a turning point
and also this can be.

So I wish you "happy birthday!"
even though it may be false
and this very birthday
isn't at all yours.