Way Of The Wise

It took him twenty years of seamless joy,

Two decades of mixed fortunes

And a full year of unprecedented calm 

Amid cyclones, quakes and pandemics,

To suspect he, as a man,

Was taken for a cosmic ride.

Buddha knew it quite young

And set out

Abandoning wife, child and kingdom.

Our hero, wiser than the wisest,

Didn't budge;

He only pulled a blanket 

Over himself and slept.