Vow

1
this body was born
and I know it will die

will be eaten up by sun
washd away by sea


2
I have enterd it
like an egg in the shell
and like a bird
going to another nest

when this one is rotted
I shall enter in
to different bodies
again and again


3
thus have I ever been
from beginning to end
of this world

giving up successive bodies
and assuming ever new ones
over & over ever again


4
and having
in the space of time
gotten in
to this present body

I am in this way
made to go
round
in an endless going round

and round on an endless circle
cycle

of beginningless births
and deathless deaths


5
until the meaning of my mattering
no longer matters, and the sphere

of my spirit
is pure spirit


6
and I peer out
in to the appearing
of a child

as a sun beam
through the eyehole
of a clearing


7
and I come to my senses at last


8
and I've determined to put an end

to my beginning without end


9
and I vow

never
again
to be

found on
this endless wheel of
these monstrous

transformigrations of Me