Ignorance and Bliss

By Danny Villarreal

 

 

 

     I used to think that true love

     Would be my liberation

     Till I found that

     The only true love

     Was in a dreamland nation

 

     Trying to find it in life

     Is much more painful

     Than I ever imagined

     So much beauty,

     Like a beauty pageant

 

     Thetas why the Buddha said

     That everything is sorrow

     Even joy is just another

     Dark cloud from tomorrow

 

     Which from time to time

     Obscures the sun

     From the light in our life

     Turning something into none

 

     I used to believe that

     There was this missing piece

     My own shooting star

     That somehow belonged to me

 

     I have found much solace

     In the worlds outside this one

     In the places within and without

     Being careful when I am done

 

     They are all searching

     Looking for something

     All outside of themselves

     Within them there is nothing

 

     I looked for god

     I looked for love

     I looked for me

     All I found was beauty

     Inexhaustible beauty

     That no one else could see

 

     I thought to myself

     This is the price of knowledge

     This is what somebody missed

     This is why they say

     Ignorance is bliss

     -D