Sonnet 18: The Traveler

Sonnet 18: The Traveler 4: O Buddha! I do wish to follow your golden middle path

O, Buddha! I do wish to follow your golden middle path,

 And wish not to attach with the mundane avarice;

 So in the river of your wisdom every day I take a bath,

 And meditate upon you and try to follow your advice.

 The Path between extreme self-indulgence and self-mortification,

 But o Buddha! Yet I know not, extreme of any of my sides;

 So with my own wisdom, ---I am doing some deliberation,

 And want to see, My Extremes of these worldly tides.

 For then only, I will know you and what is this extreme,

 And where stands your so-called The Golden Middle Path;

 For I know you too were like me and too swam in this stream,

 And only then, you discovered the painful mundane swath.

 So don’t be surprised if you see me touching the extreme;

 For only then, I will bow and then will believe in your beam.