If I Had Met You In My Youth

If I Had Met You In My Youth

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Para Sam Gate 

Bodhi Swaha

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In my life

Believed I would 

Meet a woman

Exactly Like You 

Who understood me 

Peace 

Fading

Life Death 

Gate Gate 

Para Gate

Para Sam 

Gate Bodhi 

Swaha

My dreams Slipped

Through my fingers

Bones Ashes Of age

Too old now

Far closer 

To the afterlife

But I can be your 

Friend as time passes

While your pedals

Unfold into

Greater beauty

Lotus flower

Fully opening 

I will never live 

In your garden

But I will watch 

You fully 

Blossom 

Feeling 

Unsurpassable

Joy bliss

For you now

You must soar

Like a bird

I won't hold 

You down

In ordinary

Mundane

Relationship

 

Peace 

Fading

Life Death 

Gate Gate 

Para Gate

Para Sam 

Gate Bodhi 

Swaha

My love

In life vast

Heart open

I can hurt

Deeply

But in my

Weeping

My loving

I would 

Never 

Hurt you

Only wish 

To watch you

Fully blossom

Sweet 

Unfolding

Lotus

Flower 

Oh you are

A sublime

Flower

Fragrance

Lifting my

Spirits

Peace 

Fading

Life Death 

Gate Gate 

Para Gate

Para Sam 

Gate Bodhi 

Swaha

I Do not wish 

To pick you

Forsake

Or defile

You dear

Precious

Love 

When young

I Would have 

Have lived

With you in the

Garden of Eden 

For The Rest 

Of my Days

But

Those 

Days

Have 

Now 

Passed

Peace 

Fading

Life Death 

Gate Gate 

Para Gate

Para Sam 

Gate Bodhi 

Swaha

Peering down 

On youth

Seemingly distant

Please know 

In your heart

Delicate flower

My friendship

Love is real

No need

To fear me

I'm your friend

Until my last

Breath

Simply 

Knowing 

You exist 

On this 

Suffering 

Bleeding 

Earth 

Is Far 

more

Than

Enough

I only wish to 

Hear your song 

Sing with you

In those 

Moments

Soaring

In music

Your voice

My Life would 

Be Complete  

Peace 

My Fading

Life Death 

Gate Gate 

Para Gate

Para Sam 

Gate Bodhi 

Swaha

At my age 

After many years 

Much loving 

Know In a moment

Things I say

Are truth

I will water your garden

With my remaining

Tears of youth

Which are

Fading 

When I was young

You would have 

Set my world on fire 

With happiness

Bliss Love 

Eould have 

Loved you 

In my arms 

Protected You 

For the rest 

Of your life

Until your 

Final 

Breath

But my dreams

Dissipated

Ageing

Now alone

Walk my path

Onward 

Blossom

Dear 

Beautiful 

Flower

Never

Look

Back

I see you

Waving 

In the

Rear 

View

Mirror 

Of my

Life 

As I Go

Alone 

Towards 

White lights 

My Afterlife 

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Gate Gate Para Gate

Para Sam Gate 

Bodhi Swaha

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David Arndt 

September 28, 2022

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