20: The Peace Beyond Knowledge


Get rid of learning and problems will vanish

Yes and no aren’t so far apart

Lovely and ugly aren’t so unalike

What others fear we can’t help fear too

Before the moon begins to wane everyone is overjoyed

As if they were at the Great Sacrifice or climbing a tower in spring

I sit here and make no sign like an infant that doesn’t smile

Lost with no one to turn to while others enjoy more

I alone seem deficient with a mind like that of a fool

I’m so simple

Others look bright

I alone seem dim

Others are certain

I alone am confused

Ebbing like the ocean

Waxing without cease

Everyone has a goal

I alone am dumb and backward

For I alone choose to differ

Preferring still my mother’s tit

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