Zen Garden
When I get bogged down
In the unblessed flesh
There's a calm retreat
Where my soul can rest...
Dateless sands of time
Have been raked just so...
And the well stacked stones
Look like Tokyo...
It's an easy guess
In this dog eat dog
Where a broken mind
Can see through the fog...
Zen Garden!...
Ride the eastern winds...
Like a long lost friend...
Zen Garden!...
Gliding on the waves,
Mythic mountain range...
Gazing at Bonsai,
On the winding path...
It's no wonder time
Need no hourglass...
Zen Garden!...
Fighting earthly ills
By just standing still...
Zen Garden!...
See your silhouette
Outlined by sunset...
Beauty beyond words
Now will come to pass...
While the songs of birds
Cleanse my mind at last...
Zen Garden!...
Zen Garden!...
When the jigsaw blue
Is full of plot holes,
And my two brown eyes
Needs a toilet roll
I get petrified...
But if roads were paved
In kimono flowers
I'd emerge unscathed...
Vagrant silhouette
On the river Kwai
Is a Sensei sent
To drink in the sky...
Zen Garden!...
Ride the eastern winds...
Like a long lost friend...
Zen Garden!...
Gliding on the waves,
Mythic mountain range...
Gazing at Bonsai,
On the winding path...
It's no wonder time
Need no hourglass...
Zen Garden!...
Fighting earthly ills
By just standing still...
Zen Garden!...
See your silhouette
Outlined by sunset...
Beauty beyond words
Now will come to pass...
While the songs of birds
Cleanse my mind at last...
Zen Garden!...
Zen Garden!...
In some twilight state
Scaling the eclipse
I was sleepwalking
To red carpet hips...
Your low hanging fruit
Had me mystified...
I'd gone deaf to quakes...
Missed the warning signs...
Now I'm taking stock...
Peering past ice caps
As the cherry trees
Cause my wings to flap...
Zen Garden!...
Ride the eastern winds...
Like a long lost friend...
Zen Garden!...
Gliding on the waves,
Mythic mountain range...
Gazing at Bonsai,
On the winding path...
It's no wonder time
Need no hourglass...
Zen Garden!...
Fighting earthly ills
By just standing still...
Zen Garden!...
See your silhouette
Outlined by sunset...
Beauty beyond words
Now will come to pass...
While the songs of birds
Cleanse my mind at last...
Zen Garden!...
Zen Garden!...
4/23/24
Bunny Villaire