Sunday, 16 January 2011

2nd draft - Ban


Up late at night we talked of God and cigs
He often made me tea, I gave him figs.

He's gone from his world now with no goodbye
I don't begrudge him that despite my cry
Of pain at losing Ban the Buddhist monk
Whose friendship knew no bounds, my dharma punk.

I hope that his beliefs are just unerring
And he transcended, no more journeying
This world with sufi stick, musing with mirth
The misery that is the planet Earth.

So now I bid goodbye to that soft man
This poem ends too soon, and so did Ban.

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