Deepen Poem by nimal dunuhinga

[The Buddha's basic teachings are usually summarized using the device of the Four Noble Truths: ]

There is suffering.
There is the origination of suffering.
There is the cessation of suffering.
There is a path to the cessation of suffering.


I am a Whale now
swimming with my offspring
in the deep Ocean
I tell them a story
of my previous birth
that I was a shrimp
in that beautiful culinary teacher's
deep fry among her promising students
and how I suffered?

nimal p.dunuhinga